Michael Caine Quotes

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best th... -Michael Caine

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

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This quote expresses a positive view of aging, suggesting that growing old is preferable to the alternative, which is not growing old (i.e., dying). It implies that embracing the aging process and appreciating each stage of life is a positive and wise perspective.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal... -Michael Caine

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with int... -Michael Caine

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

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

For all my education, accomplishments, and so call... -Michael Caine

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

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?

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

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

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.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

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.

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

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