Michael Caine Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

  Michael Caine

  House, Hollywood, Film

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

  Michael Caine

  Competition, Acting, Done

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.64, Hal Leonard Corporation

• My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Wife, Half

• In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

  Michael Caine

  Giving, Acting, Actors

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.50, Hal Leonard Corporation

• I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

  Michael Caine

  America, Film, Foreigners

• When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.

  Michael Caine

  Thinking, Two, One Day

  "Michael Caine: A Life Large Enough For An Encore". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 30, 2010.

• 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

  Trying, Lucky, Film

• That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

  Michael Caine

  Real, Ideas, Acting

  Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

• I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Film, Wanted

• It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

  Michael Caine

  Winning, Awards, Careers

• As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.

  Michael Caine

  Attitude, Nice, Cutting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

  Michael Caine

  Pounds, Film, Said

• You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Looks, Actors

• 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

  Character, Thinking, Giving

  Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.272, Hachette UK

• People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

  Michael Caine

  Swimming, Order, People

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

• You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

  Michael Caine

  Film, Paid

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

  Michael Caine

  Answers, Film, Performances

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