Michael Caine Quotes

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

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.

I don’t meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.

Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

Obsession is a young man’s game.

My own mentality is that I’ve retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.