Michael Caine Quotes
Best 20 Quotes by Michael Caine
“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.”
“A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.”
“A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.”
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
“Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. Easy doesn't enter into grown-up life.”
“I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.”
“I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.”
“I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.”
“I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.”
“I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.”
“I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.”
“I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.”
“I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.”
“If you start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.”
“It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.”
“Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.”
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“I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.”
“My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.”
“Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.”
“The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.”
“Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them.”
