“I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes ou...” — Michael Caine Quote

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

You know, hip hop is a big ferris wheel that goes around and you've just gotta be able to maintain yourself while it's going around.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

My parents are very even-keeled. You know, just kind of steady as she goes.