I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
MICHAEL CAINEThere 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.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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