Michael Caine

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

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

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.