423 Quotes by Michael Caine

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father."

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does."

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.