Quotes About Michael Caine

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

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

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

He's like the tiger shark in Jaws. The one Dreyfuss cuts open in the fisherman's basement. That's why we named him Hooper. You remember the tiger shark? He had a license plate in his stomach?" "I never saw Jaws. I caught one of the sequels on TV in rehab. The one with Michael Caine." Another silence followed, this one awestruck and wondering. "Jesus. No wonder we didn't last," Lou said.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

Michael Caine is so happy. Happy and healthy. I think he enjoys life. I think he's 82 now, and I have no clue if I'll be working at that age.

Michael Caine should have the last word on the reviews: 'What about those reviews then?' 'I don't read them.' 'Don't read them? You wrote them didn't you?

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

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

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

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

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

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

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

In college, I was teetering on the edge: Do I want to be an actor? Do I not want to be an actor? And then I saw Michael Caine in 'Alfie,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's what I want to do with my life,' even if I knew I'd never reach that level of proficiency.

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

I had one day with him, and he was asleep in the scene, but I told my entire family that I was in a scene with Michael Caine.

Growing up in Britain, Michael Caine has always been such an icon. Chatting with him, I know I came across as the biggest doofus. Literally, I was, like, bowing to him.

I interviewed Michael Caine the other day for a film about him being a magician and we did it in - and by the way, this place does exist - the Ministry of Magic in Marylebone. I know, it's ludicrous!

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'