Quotes from Michael Caine

Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

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

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

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

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.

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

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

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

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.

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.