Latest Michael Caine Quotes from Interviews

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• I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.

  Michael Caine

  Car, Long, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.

  Michael Caine

  Attitude, Nice, Cutting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

  Michael Caine

  Views, Nowhere To Go, Should

  Source: www.chud.com

• In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

  Michael Caine

  Real, People, Height

  "Katie Holmes, Michael Caine for "Batman Begins". Interview with press in Los Angeles, www.darkhorizons.com. June 14, 2005.

• I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

  Michael Caine

  Thinking, Would Be, Dull

  "Interview: Michael Caine And Katie Holmes". Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 7, 2005.

• Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Oscars, Patient

• There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

  Michael Caine

  Giving, Black, Actors

• I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.

  Michael Caine

  Thinking, Age, Would Be

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

  Michael Caine

  School, Boys, Grandpa

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

  Michael Caine

  Promise, Grandfather, World

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Father, Two, Over You

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

  Michael Caine

  Weakness, Nastiness, Exposed

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.

  Michael Caine

  Retiring

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

  Michael Caine

  Promise, Directors, Casts

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.

  Michael Caine

  Thinking, Ems, Weak

  interviewwith Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

  Michael Caine

  Tough

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

  Michael Caine

  Book, Reading, Cinema

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Father, Stuff, Causes

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.

  Michael Caine

  Girl, Challenges, Needs

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• I spent my life in the library reading books.

  Michael Caine

  Book, Reading, Library

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

  Michael Caine

  Play, Trying, Roles

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

• If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

  Michael Caine

  Hero, Long, Enough

  "Profile and Interview: Michael Caine". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com.

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Real, Ideas, Acting

  Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

• I'd like it to be remembered as you had some fun. We're only here [living] for some fun. I think if you learn something, all well and good, but we're only here to give you some fun. Along the way, you may find out something.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Thinking, Giving

• What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.

  Michael Caine

  Writing, Special, Looks

  Ivnterview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.