Sir Michael Caine movie quotes

“In times of real trouble, the one thing man can depend on is the sympathy of the bank.”
Sir Michael Caine - Captain Mike Turner

“- Dr. Watson: Last night, Holmes realized how stupid he had been.
- Sherlock Holmes: Now, I didn't say stupid...
- Dr. Watson: Yes, you did.”
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

“- Cliff Brumby: Getting yourself killed won't bring Richie back. Revenge doesn't work.
- Jack Carter: Sure it does.”
Sir Michael Caine - Cliff Brumby
Sylvester Stallone - Jack Carter

“When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.”
Sir Michael Caine

“English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.”
Sir Michael Caine

“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.”
Sir Michael Caine

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

“I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny'.”
Sir Michael Caine

“The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.”
Sir Michael Caine

“The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.”
Sir Michael Caine

“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.”
Sir Michael Caine

“A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.”
Sir Michael Caine

“English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.”
Sir Michael Caine

“If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.”
Sir Michael Caine

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

“Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum.”
Sir Michael Caine

“I'm every bourgeoisnightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.”
Sir Michael Caine

“I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.”
Sir Michael Caine

“Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.”
Sir Michael Caine

“Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.”
Sir Michael Caine

“You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.”
Sir Michael Caine

“I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.”
Sir Michael Caine

“I can't say what made me fall in love with Vietnam.That a woman's voice can drug you? That everything is so intense? The colors, the taste, even the rain. Nothing like the filthy rain in London. They say whatever you're looking for, you will find here.”
Sir Michael Caine - Thomas Fowler

“- Kaulder: We don't destroy witches anymore, incarcerate them, taken the most powerful witches that walked the Earth and put them in one place.
- Dolan Thirty-Six: Witchprison.
- Kaulder: They've been waiting to be released, to exact revenge, we created the perfect coven.”
Sir Michael Caine - Dolan 36th
Vin Diesel - Kaulder