423 Quotes by Michael Caine

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.