Michael Caine Quotes - Page 2

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

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

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

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

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

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

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

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.

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

A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.

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.

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.

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

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

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

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

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

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 never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.