Sir Michael Caine movie quotes

“- Diana Barrie: Give me a drink. You have the most bizarre sense of humor.
- Sidney Cochran: Bizarre people often do!”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“Here's to capitalism and big tits.”

Sir Michael Caine - Harry Palmer

“- Fuzzy: Is your father dead?
- Dr. Wilbur Larch: Cirrhosis. It's a disease of the liver.
- Fuzzy: What, a liver killed him?
- Dr. Wilbur Larch: No, alcohol killed him. He drank himself to death.”
Erik Per Sullivan - Fuzzy
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“- Diana Barrie: You can stop pretending to be asleep, Sidney. It's over.
- Sidney Cochran: I was listening to Beethoven's Ninth. Somewhere on this plane there's a wonderful orchestra.”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“I know it's against the law. I ask you, what has the law ever done for this place?”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“- Voice on phone: We were given your number by a friend.
- Harry Palmer: Nice to know I have any.”
Sir Michael Caine - Harry Palmer

“- Dr. Watson: Moriarty knows... I'm am the only match for his evil genius.
- Sherlock Holmes: You mean he's not trying to kill me?
- Dr. Watson: Of course not. He knows you're an idiot.
- Sherlock Holmes: Oh, thank God.”
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

“- Captain Mike Turner: What are you going to do now? Go back to your chateau?
- Celeste Whitman: There is no chateau.
- Captain Mike Turner: Some place must be home.
- Celeste Whitman: I'm open to suggestions.”
Sir Michael Caine - Captain Mike Turner
Sally Field - Celeste Whitman

“- Helden von Tiebolt: Don't speak for a moment, just listen. These precautions may seem foolish to you, but they are necessary, I promise you!
- Noel Holcroft: Listen, lady, three days ago, I was forty stories in the air, over New York, in a gale force wind, hiding from an insane building contractor. Let me tell you something. I felt safer there...” (continue)(continue reading)

Victoria Tennant - Helden von Tiebolt
Sir Michael Caine - Noel Holcroft

“Some games are more dangerous than others.”
Sir Michael Caine - Harry Palmer

“- Capt. John Colby - The Players: England: The whole bloody war's a regrettable mistake.
- Major Karl Von Steiner - The Germans: I agree.”
Sir Michael Caine - Capt. John Colby - The Players: England
Max von Sydow - Major Karl Von Steiner - The Germans

“I had hoped to become a hero. But in St. Cloud's there was no such position. In the lonely, sordid world of lost children, there were no heroes to be found. And so I became the caretaker of many, father of none.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“Christmas is a very busy time for us, Mr. Cratchit. People preparing feasts, giving parties, spending the mortgage money on frivolities. One might say that December is the foreclosure season. Harvest time for the money-lenders.”
Sir Michael Caine - Scrooge

“I make the suggestions, and you make the choices. That's how destiny works, Larry, very subtly. Welcome to your new life, Larry. I hope you like it.”
Sir Michael Caine - Mike

“I'll bury him in the yard. No, the vegetable patch! Easier digging.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“In other parts of the world young men leave home and travel far and wide in search of a promising future. Their journeys are often fueled by dreams of triumphing over evil, finding a great love, or the hopes of fortunes easily made.”
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing, and on your lips it's shrill and hollow and tuneless.”
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant

“- Lloyd Fellowes: The wellsprings of human action are deep and cloudy. Maybe something happened to you when you were a very, very, very small child that made you frightened to let go of groceries.
- Belinda Blair: Or it could be genetic.
- Garry Lejeune: Yes, or it could be... you know.
- Lloyd Fellowes: Could... could well be.”

Sir Michael Caine - Lloyd Fellowes
Marilu Henner - Belinda Blair
John Ritter - Garry Lejeune

“- Sidney Bruhl: Why make it anywhere? Why make it?
- Clifford Anderson: Because it's there, Sidney!
- Sidney Bruhl: That's mountains, not plays! Plays are not there until some asshole writes them!”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson

“- Dr. Wilbur Larch: She died of secrecy. She died of... ignorance. Homer, did you expect to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to decide whether or not to have children. Wouldn't you agree?
- Homer Wells: I'm not excepting people to be responsible enough to control themselves to begin with.”
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch
Tobey Maguire - Homer Wells

“- Baxter: Smile, Sir Malcolm, as the cameras catch the dying moments of a British colony.
- Sir Malcolm: Dying moments of my career, you mean.”

Sir Michael Caine - Baxter
Leonard Rossiter - Sir Malcolm

“- Mike: Have you ever been faced with a decision, and you weren't sure what to do?
- Larry Burrows: Yeah, sure, plenty of times.
- Mike: And then something inside made you choose one direction over another?”
Sir Michael Caine - Mike
Jim Belushi - Larry Burrows

“- Kathy Morningside: New Jersey, as you know, there are many who consider the Miss United States Pageant to be outdated and anti-feminist. What would you say to them?
- Gracie Hart: Well, I would have to say: I used to be one of them. And then I came here and I realized that these women are smart, terrific people who are just trying to make a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Candice Bergen - Kathy Morningside
Sandra Bullock - Gracie Hart
Sir Michael Caine - Victor Melling

“You drank everything in this state. Try Nevada!”

Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“- Lloyd Fellowes: I'm starting to know what God felt like when He sat out there in the darkness, creating the world.
- Belinda Blair: And what did He feel like, Lloyd my dear?
- Lloyd Fellowes: Very pleased He'd taken His Valium.”
Sir Michael Caine - Lloyd Fellowes
Marilu Henner - Belinda Blair