If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. Michael Caine actorcontroldirector Change image and share on social
If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers. Michael Caine friendhavehome share on social
Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed. Michael Caine actorcainefail Change image and share on social
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. Michael Caine charactereducatefilm share on social
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. Michael Caine actorhavepoint Change image and share on social
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. Michael Caine excusegamegrow Change image and share on social
For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know? Michael Caine characterinterestlead share on social
I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Michael Caine actorcharacterenjoy Change image and share on social
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else. Michael Caine absolutelyactorbasically share on social
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. Michael Caine accentamericanbackground share on social