Michael Caine Quotes

My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

I'm just doing all type of music that I like. I'm not so worried about the money like I used to be. I got money now. I don't have to worry about that.

I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.

I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to do. It's all about the inner, rather than the outer. Whether people like or don't like my work, read it or don't read it, it's just been a gift from the gods that I've been able to sit at my desk for the last almost 50 years and do the things I've wanted to do.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

It's not all about money for me.

I've made a lot of money, I'm happy where I'm at. I've got a good family - I don't really need to play football.

In the end, the important thing is that you decide where you will be happy and where you can do well, to show that as well as being footballers, we are people.

Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don't have it, the money doesn't spend nearly as well.

If you enjoy and become a fan of Tony Rock, I really appreciate it! But, I do my comedy for me, so I don't try and please everyone or appease anyone. In the end, it's for me.

I don't sell millions of records. As a matter of fact, I'm not even interested in selling millions of records. I enjoy MCing. I make a decent amount of money. I can feed my kids. I keep a roof over my head. I don't have to sell a million records to maintain my lifestyle.

I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.