A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
Michael Caine

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
Michael Caine

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Michael Caine

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
Michael Caine

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Michael Caine

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Michael Caine

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
Michael Caine

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

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
Michael Caine

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
Michael Caine


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

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Michael Caine

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
Michael Caine

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
Michael Caine

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
Michael Caine

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

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
Michael Caine

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

I'm the audience's representative on earth.
Michael Caine