| Michael Caine Quotes |
Pages: 1
2 |
UK Actor.
|
[on doing a cameo]
I didn't like it. I am used to being a movie star with people running around me getting me cups of coffee.
|
|
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
|
|
We lose everything. We lost the World Cup. Lost Wimbledon. But we do it with grace and style because we're accustomed to it.
|
|
The art of acting is in the eyes. If you come on with no clothes on, nobody's going to be looking at your eyes. They're all gonna be saying: 'Oh, I thought it'd be a bit bigger than that.'
|
|
Movie stars, from any serious point of view, are inconsequential. The only people who take movie stars seriously are other movie stars.
|
[on his dropping of cockney accent]
I'm a slut. Pay me enough, I talk different.
|
[why never wanted to play Bond]
I don't like all that driving cars and running around and jumping about all over the place. I'm quite lazy.
|
|
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly — because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them.
|
|
Sir Lawrence Olivier was full of wisdom and one day said 'Michael, a truly great actor could step off a tall building and make himself fly like a bird.' Later he admitted he was trying to kill me.
|
|
Be like a duck, my mother used to tell me. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.
|
|
Click here to send these Michael Caine quotes to a friend!
|
