423 Quotes by Michael Caine

A lot of my best parts I’ve been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

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

I don’t want to screw up today’s work and tomorrow’s worrying about yesterday’s and I don’t want to focus on what it looks like on the outside when the performance has to come from within me. I want to be in the moment now, getting it right from the inside.

I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them.

I can’t really act – I’m just trying to make as much money as I can before anyone finds out.

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

You don’t retire from the movies. The movies retire you.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you’re talking to.