423 Quotes by Michael Caine

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

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

It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

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

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

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.