Feel Quotes

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Michael Caine

Tags: Never Without Present

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Michael Caine

Tags: Intelligence Every Million

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

Michael Caine

Tags: Good Sort Next

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

Michael Caine

Tags: Me Like Who

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

Michael Caine

Tags: Want First Ever

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

Michael Caine

Tags: Movies Out Been

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

Tags: Family Come Hard

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Michael Caine

Tags: Day Actor Spend

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

Michael Caine

Tags: Best You About

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

Michael Caine

Tags: Time Medical You

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

Michael Caine

Tags: Time Life Never

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

Michael Caine

Tags: Funny People Me

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

Michael Caine

Tags: Funny Humor Anger

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

Michael Caine

Tags: Me About Lot

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Michael Caine

Tags: Had Things Wanted

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

Michael Caine

Tags: Age School Mother

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.

Michael Caine

Tags: You Think More

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

Michael Caine

Tags: Good Money Know

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

Michael Caine

Tags: Get Go Every

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?

Michael Caine

Tags: Romantic You People

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.

Michael Caine

Tags: You Just Get

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

Michael Caine

Tags: You About Out

What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

Michael Caine

Tags: You People About

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

Michael Caine

Tags: You Me Think