I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
— Michael Caine
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
