Sir Michael Caine movie quotes

“Here in St. Cloud's not even the decision to get off the train is easily made, for it requires an earlier, more difficult decision - add a child to your life, or leave one behind. The only reason people journey here is for the orphanage.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“Very creative, Watson. Something that would never have occurred to the likes of me. Imagine! A Sherlock Holmes adventure in which Lestrade solves the bloody case!”
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

“Sacrifice is... to get anything of value, you have to sacrifice.”
Sir Michael Caine - Robert Spritzel

“- Hinh: I thought you liked London.
- Thomas Fowler: I do. But I like London fine where it is, I don't want to bloody go there.”

Tzi Ma - Hinh
Sir Michael Caine - Thomas Fowler

“- Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit: If you please sir, why open the office tomorrow? Other businesses will be closed; there'll be no one to do business with. It'll waste a lot of expensive coal for the fire!
- Scrooge: It's a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every December the 25th. But as I seem to be the only man who knows that... take...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Whitmire - Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit
Sir Michael Caine - Scrooge

“I accept this case. My fee will be 500 pounds, payable in 10-pound notes.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

“It was just what I needed: a one inch god with a two inch penis.”
Sir Michael Caine - Matthew Hollis

“- Robert Angier: I thought you said I'd have to get my hands dirty.
- Cutter: Maybe someday you will; I just needed to know that you could.”
Hugh Jackman - Robert Angier
Sir Michael Caine - Cutter

“- Sherlock Holmes: Ah, gentlemen. And what can I do for you? A mystery to be solved?
- Thug: You might say that. There's a little matter of a gambling debt, and the mystery is why you ain't paid it.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes
Clive Mantle - Thug

“Here in St. Cloud's, I have been given the opportunity of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. Men and women of conscience should sieze those moments when it's possible to play God. There won't be many.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“I've got it! His real name is Arty-Morti!”

Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

- Victor Melling: Why is New Jersey called "The Garden State"?
- Gracie Hart: Because it's too hard to fit "Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State" on a license plate?
Sir Michael Caine - Victor Melling
Sandra Bullock - Gracie Hart

“- Matthew Hollis: Do you miss me at all?
- Karen Hollis: At all? Yes dear, I miss you at all.”
Sir Michael Caine - Matthew Hollis
Valerie Harper - Karen Hollis

“- Alfred: Why bats, Master Wayne?
- Bruce Wayne: Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread.”
Sir Michael Caine - Alfred
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“- Harry Palmer: Are you in charge of this operation?
- Nick: Yes.
- Harry Palmer: You're a bit young, aren't you?
- Nick: You don't worry about my youth, and I won't worry about your age.”
Sir Michael Caine - Harry Palmer
Jason Connery - Nick

“We've been fighting a losing battle against the insects for fifteen years, but I never thought I'd see the final face-off in my lifetime. And I never dreamed, that it would turn out to be the bees. They've always been our friend.”
Sir Michael Caine - Brad Crane

“- Gracie Hart: Excuse me what is your problem?
- Victor Melling: Problem?
- Gracie Hart: Yeah. I mean yes. I mean, have I offended you in some way? Because quite frankly you've been completely antagonistic since the second I walked through that door.”
Sandra Bullock - Gracie Hart
Sir Michael Caine - Victor Melling

“In this country they drive on the wrong side of the road.”

Sir Michael Caine - Charlie Croker

“- Dr. Wilbur Larch: She was an immigrant.
- Fuzzy: What's an immigrant?
- Dr. Wilbur Larch: Someone not from Maine.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch
Erik Per Sullivan - Fuzzy

“- Diana Barrie: God damn him! God damn you. God damn Oscars. God damn California! God damn everything.
- Sidney Cochran: What is it about this climate that brings out the religion in you?”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“- Collins: Doctor Bryant, I don't think you're listening to me.
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Mr Collins, I don't think you're saying anything to me.
- Collins: Doctor, are you drunk?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Drunk? Of course I'm drunk. You don't really expect me to teach this when I'm sober.”
Kim Fortune - Collins
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant

- Jake Mellows: They forget who I am!
- Lela Forin: They know exactly who you are, Jake, a washed-up, desparate action man who doesn't know he's past his prime.
- Jake Mellows: Me! Past my prime! No actor is ever past his prime. Look, look at Jessica Tandy in "Driving Miss Daisy"!
Sir Michael Caine - Jake Mellows
Judith Godrèche - Lela Forin

“- Jake Mellows: I want my money!
- Lela Forin: You gambled most of it away. They kept you in debt so you couldn't walk away.”
Sir Michael Caine - Jake Mellows
Judith Godrèche - Lela Forin

“It was, quite simply, the worst night of my life, my embarrassment compounded by the fact that Victor had now slept with two out of the three members of my family.”
Sir Michael Caine - Matthew Hollis

“- Dr. Watson: I'll ask you once more: Are you coming with me?
- Sherlock Holmes: I would rather waltz naked through the fires of Hell.”
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes