Michael Caine

“You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner, and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor.”

“The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.”

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

“Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.”

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

“I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.”

“I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.”

“I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.”

“For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?”

“But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.”

“I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.”

“My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.”

“I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.”

“My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.”

“As an actor, I'll play anything.”

“I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.”

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