423 Quotes by Michael Caine

I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.

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.

I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you’re talking to.

I’ve been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn’t even know someone had taken that picture.

If you’re blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you’re invisible on stage.

I didn’t want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, ‘Dinner is served, would you like coffee?’

There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.

I’m not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn’t bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.