Michael Caine Thinking Quotations

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 think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.

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 think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

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

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.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

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.

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!'

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

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