Michael Caine Quotes, Thoughts and images

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

A 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.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script for every 20 dramas.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Be patient. Of course, it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

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

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.