423 Quotes by Michael Caine

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.

Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.