423 Quotes by Michael Caine

I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

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?'

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.