Michael Caine

Actor

1933-03-14

Michael Caine is an English actor known for films including Alfie, The Italian Job, and The Cider House Rules. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor.

Quotes by Michael Caine

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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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.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'
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I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.
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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
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Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
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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.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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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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If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
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Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things I had done, not the things I hadn't.
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