423 Quotes by Michael Caine

When you are prepared, you are able to subdue your fear, control your nerves, channel your energy, and enter that state of highly alert relaxation that is spontaneity’s best friend.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.”

It’s funny, people ask me, ‘What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?’ And I say ‘Swollen’ by Bent, and they say ‘I think he’s off his rocker!’

My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I’d get the girl.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’

If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.