“I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.”
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Famous Michael Caine Quotes
“I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.”
“I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.”
“I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.”
“I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.”
“I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.”
“I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.”
“I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.”
“I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.”
“I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.”
“I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.”
“I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.”
“I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.”
“If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.”
“If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.”
“The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.”
“The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.”
“We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.”
“You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.”
“You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.”
“You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.”
“I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.”
“I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.”