423 Quotes by Michael Caine

People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I've always played very human sort of characters.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.