Quote

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

Michael Caine

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
Sir Michael Caine
CBE
Sir Michael Caine
Millions
Every
Cockney
Cockneys
Bourgeois
Nightmare
Dollars
Million
Intelligence

More quotes by Michael Caine

Image
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
Image
Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
Michael Caine
Image
You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
Michael Caine
Image
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
Image
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.
Michael Caine
Image
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.
Michael Caine
Image
I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
Michael Caine
Image
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
Michael Caine
Image
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.
Michael Caine
Image
You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
Michael Caine
Image
You don't sacrifice your individuality you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
Michael Caine
Image
We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
Michael Caine
Image
I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
Michael Caine
Image
You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
Michael Caine
Image
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Michael Caine
Image
The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael Caine
Image
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.
Michael Caine
Image
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
Image
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
Michael Caine
Image
Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
Michael Caine