Quote

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

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
Long
Time
Think
Actor
Thinking
Sort
Wonder
Actors
Stills
Still

More quotes by Michael Caine

Image
If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
Michael Caine
Image
I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
Michael Caine
Image
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine
Image
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
Michael Caine
Image
I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
Michael Caine
Image
I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
Michael Caine
Image
Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
Michael Caine
Image
There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
Michael Caine
Image
I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.
Michael Caine
Image
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
Michael Caine
Image
I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.
Michael Caine
Image
I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
Michael Caine
Image
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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
I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
Michael Caine
Image
I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
Michael Caine
Image
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
Michael Caine
Image
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.
Michael Caine
Image
My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
Michael Caine
Image
I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
Michael Caine