Michael Caine Quotes

I've never YouTubed myself, and I'm actually scared to do it. I think I may just let sleeping dogs lie on this one.

Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there for a week.

I used to care a lot about what other people thought - like teammates.

Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.

If I feel like I'm myself, then I'm very uncomfortable.

I don't think I appear very cool to people who observe me on the ground.

I do not Google myself, I do not read comments, and I barely look myself in the eye when I look in the mirror.

I'm not a fan of seeing myself on TV.

I can't watch myself on TV.

I try to avoid mirrors.

I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.

People may see me as a luxurious star, but I am always thinking I can be represented by my psychological world that is fraught with vanity, loneliness, and always feels inadequate.

When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.