423 Quotes by Michael Caine

To me, ‘Educating Rita’ is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

I’ve done a lot of radio in my life so I am absolutely used of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it’s always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.

I don’t want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don’t want to be in the old folks home.

They use those monitors now, and sometimes you’ll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don’t want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself ’til the movie’s finished.

I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You’d get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart’s ‘The Caine Mutiny,’ which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I’d gotten my first TV job.

We can only use British actors because everybody’s got to talk exactly the same.

I don’t have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.