I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
MICHAEL CAINEI don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m the audience’s representative on earth.
MICHAEL CAINEWhen 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 CAINEI did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
MICHAEL CAINEI never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
MICHAEL CAINEIt’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
MICHAEL CAINEThat to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
MICHAEL CAINEYou can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINESome men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
MICHAEL CAINEUse the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
MICHAEL CAINEThere’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
MICHAEL CAINEI read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINEBe patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
MICHAEL CAINEMy 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 CAINEA lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
MICHAEL CAINE