Michael Caine Quotes

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

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

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

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

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

When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

...some 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.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

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

I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.