More - Michael Caine Quotes

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

Michael Caine

 English Actor

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

Michael Caine

 English Actor

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

Michael Caine

 Human Nature

I have a very special relationship with Mike [Myers]. I'm a surrogate father.

Michael Caine

 Father

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.

Michael Caine

 

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

Michael Caine

 English Actor

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Michael Caine

 Conviction English Actor

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

Michael Caine

 English Actor

My career is going better now than when I was younger. It used to be that I'd get the girl but not the part. Now I get the part but not the girl.

Michael Caine

 

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy]

Michael Caine

 Acting And Actors