Michael Caine Quotes

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

There are projects I've done, such as 'Queen,' where I played Halle Berry and Danny Glover's son, where I'm so extremely proud of the work that I did that I will sit down and watch that any time.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.