423 Quotes by Michael Caine

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.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.

What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

Maybe its time we stop trying to avoid the truth and let it have its day.