423 Quotes by Michael Caine

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

I’m hoping there’s an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.

My view of actors is that basically they’re all harmless lunatics who’d be on the psychiatrist’s couch.

I don’t worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you’ll go insane.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, ‘Educating Rita.’

I do like to laugh. I remember Roger Moore, years ago, saying to me “Cheer up. You’d better have a good time because this is not a rehearsal, this is life. This is the show.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.

To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.