Michael Caine quotes

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure.

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

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

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.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

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?

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.