Comedy is underrepresented in every actor’s life, because it’s so bloody difficult to write. – Michael Caine
My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O’Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer. – Michael Caine
In my early days, I didn’t know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films. – Michael Caine
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn’t too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. – Michael Caine
I wouldn’t make an anti-American film. I’m one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans. – Michael Caine
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. – Michael Caine
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow. – Michael Caine
I don’t do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I’m funny and I do like to laugh. – Michael Caine
You cannot have one bathroom. And it don’t matter how much you love your wife and everything, ’cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner, and you’ve got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. – Michael Caine
To me, ‘Educating Rita’ is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of. – Michael Caine
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I’m offered so much good stuff that it’s not so occasional. – Michael Caine
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company! – Michael Caine
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about. – Michael Caine
In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn’t know anyone unknown who didn’t become famous. – Michael Caine
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. – Michael Caine
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
The standing ovation threw me… to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. – Michael Caine
When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part. – Michael Caine
If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. – Michael Caine
For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know? – Michael Caine
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart. – Michael Caine
I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold – we don’t interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don’t scream in your face with tears – we go home and cry on our own. – Michael Caine