Quotes from Michael Caine

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!

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

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

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.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

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

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

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

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

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

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.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.