black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Michael Caine

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enough Fast Human Listening Nature People Powerful Rule Speak
Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
MICHAEL CAINE

Choice Place Time Yourself
You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
MICHAEL CAINE

Director Follow Home Leadership Planning Window Yourself
In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
MICHAEL CAINE

Concern Performance Yourself
The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
MICHAEL CAINE

Man Myself Old Start Theatre Time
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Father Lover Moments Movie Reading Scripture Time Yourself
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
MICHAEL CAINE

Accident Fun Pretend Start Yourself
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
MICHAEL CAINE

Average Choice Greatness Myself Pay Role
Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
MICHAEL CAINE

Believe God Life Yourself
People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
MICHAEL CAINE

Diamond Gemstone Improvement Money Movie Myself People
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
MICHAEL CAINE

Mom Money Myself Understand Unknown Worth
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
MICHAEL CAINE

Best Character Steal Yourself
I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
MICHAEL CAINE

Audience Earth Myself Representation
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
MICHAEL CAINE

Character Darkness Form Myself View World
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Patience Reward Time

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Michael Caine Quotes