Michael Caine Quotes

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Actors are investigators.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

Working with any senior actor is a learning experience, so getting to work with a thespian like Kamal Hassan was a memorable one.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

For an actor, it's not like you have to go crazy to do an intense role.

That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.

I've been in front of the camera a million times as a musician, and even directed a few music videos. So, I know a lot about spacing, focus, blocking, etcetera. So, acting isn't totally new for me. Still, I find it fascinating, because you actually get to be another person.