Sir Michael Caine movie quotes

“- Thomas Fowler: Morning Hinh!
- Hinh: Yeah!
- Thomas Fowler: Anything new?
- Hinh: Oh! Corruption, mendacity...
- Thomas Fowler: I said new.”
Sir Michael Caine - Thomas Fowler
Tzi Ma - Hinh

“- Dr. Watson: Lord Mayor! Don't move until Holmes has searched the area for clues!
- Sherlock Holmes: My God I've trained you well, Watson!”
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

“- Sidney Cochran: Where are you going?
- Diana Barrie: I need another drink. The last one wore off in the lift.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie

“- Thomas Fowler: I have never thought of myself as a correspondent, just a reporter. I offer no point of view, I take no action, I don't get involved. I just report what I see.
- Alden Pyle: But you must have an opinion.
- Thomas Fowler: Even an opinion is a form of action.”
Sir Michael Caine - Thomas Fowler
Brendan Fraser - Alden Pyle

“- Diana Barrie: You should have never given it up, Sidney.
- Sidney Cochran: What?
- Diana Barrie: Acting! Christ, you were good. You had more promise than anyone.”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“What is this sucking and chucking and jacking of fucking up, son?”

Sir Michael Caine - Robert Spritzel

“- Baxter: How can we maintain decorum if our spiritual leader is trying to put his hand up Miss Cascara's skirt?
- Dolores: You prefer he put his hand up my skirt?
- Baxter: At least you're used to it. You won't scream.”
Sir Michael Caine - Baxter
Brenda Vaccaro - Dolores

“I'm sorry, what was the question? I was distracted by the half-masticated cow rolling around in your wide-open trap.”

Sir Michael Caine - Victor Melling

“- Larry Burrows: How can my life change so much just because I hit one stinking baseball?
- Mike: Well, you see Larry, one's destiny is a very complicated thing. Every incident in a person's life affects everything else that follows it.”
Jim Belushi - Larry Burrows
Sir Michael Caine - Mike

“- Eduardo Marques: You are, how you say, the queer couple?
- Matthew Hollis: Odd couple, odd.”
José Lewgoy - Eduardo Marques
Sir Michael Caine - Matthew Hollis

“This shit life... we must chuck some things. We must chuck them... in this shit life. There's always looking after.”
Sir Michael Caine - Robert Spritzel

“- Elliott James: You know what my problem is? The way they smell. The perfume of their skin. It's, it's so intoxicating. I told my wife I'd never even look at other women if only I could cut off my nose.
- Michael Burgess: What'd she say?
- Elliott James: She said I was aiming too high.”

Sir Michael Caine - Elliott James
Alan Alda - Michael Burgess

“- Renee Pelagie: Desperation has driven me past etiquette, all the way to frenzy.
- Royer-Collard: My schedule is not subject to the whim of lunatics.
- Renee Pelagie: I beg to differ, you work in a madhouse. Your every waking moment is governed by the insane.”
Jane Menelaus - Renee Pelagie
Sir Michael Caine - Royer-Collard

“I couldn't detect horse manure if I stepped in it!”
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

“It is my opinion... that he is dead.”

Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

“- Matthew Hollis: A beating is not the way, my friend.
- Eduardo Marques: He's right, you know?
- Matthew Hollis: Personally, I prefer torture.”

Sir Michael Caine - Matthew Hollis
José Lewgoy - Eduardo Marques

“I have a name and a reputation! Somewhat tattered, perhaps. But still good for dinner invitations and summer seminars.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“- Larry Burrows: 35 years old, and my life is shit.
- Mike: Can't be all that bad.
- Larry Burrows: It's not that it's bad, you know, it's just that it's ordinary.”
Jim Belushi - Larry Burrows
Sir Michael Caine - Mike

“- Captain Stefan Svevo: I hope you are a religilous man, Captain. I've taken the liberty of saying a small prayer for us.
- Captain Mike Turner: All of us?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Well, it is my feeling that... from this time on, our faiths are necessarily intertwined.
- Captain Mike Turner: Good. Then you won't be offended if I remind you of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Telly Savalas - Captain Stefan Svevo
Sir Michael Caine - Captain Mike Turner

“- Clifford Anderson: Would you like me to explain?
- Sidney Bruhl: What, that you're a lunatic with a death-wish?
- Clifford Anderson: I've got the same wish you have, Sidney - a success wish!”
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“Oh! Gorgeous color. The smog. I wonder if they sell it in bottles. It would make a wonderful present for the folks back home.”

Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“God, she's beautiful. She's got the prettiest eyes. She looks so sexy in that sweater. I just want to be alone with her and hold her and kiss her and tell her how much I love her and take care of her. Stop it you idiot, she's your wife's sister. But I can't help it. I'm consumed by her.”

Sir Michael Caine - Elliot

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. "Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.
Sir Michael Caine - Robert Spritzel

“Your destiny has been changed, Larry, by request, I might add. And you must take responsibility for the circumstances of your new life. They are, after all, of your own making.”
Sir Michael Caine - Mike

“- Diana Barrie: Oh, Christ, I hate getting dressed like this. Why is it I'm always perfectly comfortable as somebody else. I'd be perfectly happy going as Hedda Gabler.
- Sidney Cochran: Try Quasimodo.
- Diana Barrie: Try shutting up!”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran