423 Quotes by Michael Caine

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I’m a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I’ll go on for 20 minutes.

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They’re there so no one will attack them.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they’re just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don’t have the looks any more, then it’s over.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,“Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.

I didn’t know what I knew. I wasn’t aware of what I knew.

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.

When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.

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.