Michael Caine quote: "When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part."

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has ...
MICHAEL CAINE

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about a...
MICHAEL CAINE

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
MICHAEL CAINE

I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.
MICHAEL CAINE

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain ou...
MICHAEL CAINE

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I g...
MICHAEL CAINE

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start t...
MICHAEL CAINE

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick...
MICHAEL CAINE

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too mu...
MICHAEL CAINE

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned...
MICHAEL CAINE

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
MICHAEL CAINE

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
MICHAEL CAINE

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal ...
MICHAEL CAINE

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me...
MICHAEL CAINE

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I...
MICHAEL CAINE

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'… I can't fathom my own heart.
MICHAEL CAINE

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things...
MICHAEL CAINE

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own h...
MICHAEL CAINE

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things...
MICHAEL CAINE

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
MICHAEL CAINE

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's ver...
MICHAEL CAINE

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing t...
MICHAEL CAINE

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, &#...
MICHAEL CAINE

You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, &#...
MICHAEL CAINE

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
MICHAEL CAINE

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
MICHAEL CAINE

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and i...
MICHAEL CAINE

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
MICHAEL CAINE

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
MICHAEL CAINE

I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. S...
MICHAEL CAINE

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda...
MICHAEL CAINE

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
MICHAEL CAINE

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and w...
MICHAEL CAINE

My name is Michael Caine - not a lot of people know that.
MICHAEL CAINE

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can ...
MICHAEL CAINE

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director con...
MICHAEL CAINE

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on s...
MICHAEL CAINE

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always ans...
MICHAEL CAINE

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One t...
MICHAEL CAINE

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is ...
MICHAEL CAINE

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. Englis...
MICHAEL CAINE

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -...
MICHAEL CAINE

My career is going better now than when I was younger. It used to be that I'd get the girl but not t...
MICHAEL CAINE

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinem...
MICHAEL CAINE

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
MICHAEL CAINE

Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know ...
MICHAEL CAINE

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier...
MICHAEL CAINE

What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to at...
MICHAEL CAINE

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatri...
MICHAEL CAINE

My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neil...
MICHAEL CAINE

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor...
MICHAEL CAINE

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like...
MICHAEL CAINE

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is bes...
MICHAEL CAINE

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
MICHAEL CAINE

Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beac...
MICHAEL CAINE

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINE

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My fath...
MICHAEL CAINE

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to...
MICHAEL CAINE

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -...
MICHAEL CAINE

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
MICHAEL CAINE

The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royc...
MICHAEL CAINE

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my p...
MICHAEL CAINE

I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.
MICHAEL CAINE

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
MICHAEL CAINE

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite some...
MICHAEL CAINE

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every...
MICHAEL CAINE

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was ...
MICHAEL CAINE

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll ...
MICHAEL CAINE

I have a very special relationship with Mike [Myers]. I'm a surrogate father.
MICHAEL CAINE

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
MICHAEL CAINE

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the h...
MICHAEL CAINE

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been em...
LYNN CAINE

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all ...
RACHEL CAINE

There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!"
Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath...
RACHEL CAINE

Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “...
RACHEL CAINE

But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?"
Claire sig...
RACHEL CAINE

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.
MARK CAINE

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a...
MARK CAINE

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
MARK CAINE

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your ...
MARK CAINE

Crap, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"I'm thinking we have about fifteen vampires a...
RACHEL CAINE

I'll do it!"
"No, you won't," Shane and Michael said, at virtually the same time. Shane contin...
RACHEL CAINE

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
MARK CAINE

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.”
“I wonder, sometimes, if your gen...
RACHEL CAINE

Two more of the gamers Claire had gifted with the invitation stumbled by; one grabbed Claire's arm a...
RACHEL CAINE

Because you've got guy parts, you're automatically a better mechanic than me? I don't think s...
RACHEL CAINE

Claire said. “I might be able to get him to stop.”
“Who, crazy dude? Maybe. Or he might ...
RACHEL CAINE

Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?"
"That's deja vu, and I hate you right n...
RACHEL CAINE

There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of informa...
RACHEL CAINE

See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more o...
RACHEL CAINE

You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.
RACHEL CAINE

Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.
RACHEL CAINE

Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
RACHEL CAINE

Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you."
"You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the...
RACHEL CAINE

Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.
RACHEL CAINE

What about Myrnin?'
Eve swallowed, almost choked, and Michael patted her kindly on the back. Sh...
RACHEL CAINE

We use approximately 21 carriers at our 12 plants throughout the United States. We are fighting a re...
GEORGE CAINE

Don't play his game. Play yours.
RACHEL CAINE

No bacon for you."
"Then no eggs for you. Either of you."
Eve glowered at him. "Prisoner e...
RACHEL CAINE

Claire to Myrnin: "Do the guards at the mall know you're out?" He didn't look up. "That's very doubt...
RACHEL CAINE

You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.
RACHEL CAINE

I can handle Glory."
"Can you?" Eve asked. "Because I notice you never call her Gloriana. Just...
RACHEL CAINE

He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This ...
RACHEL CAINE

Hey,” he said softly. He moved closer to the bars, pressing his face between them. “I always sai...
RACHEL CAINE

Ummm…” She licked her lips. “Define fun.”
“Quit doing that, jailbait. It’s distract...
RACHEL CAINE

Hess laughed. "You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but y...
RACHEL CAINE

I'll do it!"
"No, you won't," Shane and Michael said, at virtually the same time. Shane continu...
RACHEL CAINE

Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twe...
RACHEL CAINE

Hannah leaned against the wall. 'Mind if I call shotgun?'

'Since you're carrying one? Fee...
RACHEL CAINE

Goodness,' Myrnin said quietly. 'I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enou...
RACHEL CAINE

It's called being polite; they probably didn't teach you that at home. Doesn't mean I like you or an...
RACHEL CAINE

Claire sighed. She supposed people always did like that sort of girl, and always would. And secretly...
RACHEL CAINE

bite me. oh wait, you can't from way out there."
- eve
RACHEL CAINE

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the fathe...
LYNN CAINE

Don’t!” Lillian yelled, and put up her arms when Shane pulled back the bat.

“Hell,�...
RACHEL CAINE

Did you bring me a hamburger?
Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd neve...
RACHEL CAINE

Claire tipped her head back, and this time he found her lips. It was, she thought, supposed to be a ...
RACHEL CAINE

I'm gonna kill him," Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like filtered through the pillow...
RACHEL CAINE

Can I come back and see you sometime?"
"Long as you bring me some chocolate," Gramma said, and ...
RACHEL CAINE

It’s in Latin.”
“So? What does it say?”
“I don’t read Latin!”
“You’...
RACHEL CAINE

You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.”
“I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow,...
RACHEL CAINE

I’m not a kid!” she told Shane hotly. “I’m only, like, a year younger than Eve!”
“A...
RACHEL CAINE

She wasn't absolutely sure who kissed whom this time. Maybe it was gravity tilting, stars exploding....
RACHEL CAINE

Crosses?"
"Definitely"
"Why?"
"Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?"<...
RACHEL CAINE

The second bathroom's downstairs - that's kind of the emergency backup bathroom when Shane's in ther...
RACHEL CAINE

That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.
RACHEL CAINE

And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go ...
RACHEL CAINE

You're still here. No beer. I'm not corrupting a minor."
"But you're a minor," she point...
RACHEL CAINE

Hell,' Shane spit in disgust. 'I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.' He tossed her the bat...
RACHEL CAINE

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
MARK CAINE

Delighted," Jess said. "I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them--"
"Home...
RACHEL CAINE

My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.
RACHEL CAINE

Happy birthday,” she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.
RACHEL CAINE

Doorman: Good morning Mr. Peaknis

Mr. P.: Go to hell
RACHEL CAINE

Yeah, I get it; you're a vampire," she said. "Creepy. And okay, a little hot, I admit."
"You d...
RACHEL CAINE

Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…”
He glanced over a...
RACHEL CAINE

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you...
RACHEL CAINE

You're seriously going to worry about what people think right now?"
"No, I'm worrying about peo...
RACHEL CAINE

I’d kiss you, too, if I was closer.”(claire)
“I wouldn’t,” Michael said. “I don’t...
RACHEL CAINE

The universe explodes, hell freezes, and Shane does something resonable.
RACHEL CAINE

We expect to improve efficiency for carriers and service to customers by providing better load visib...
GEORGE CAINE

We work diligently with our partner carriers to identify and remove bottlenecks at loading and inter...
GEORGE CAINE

I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.
RACHEL CAINE

Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.
RACHEL CAINE

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the con...
RACHEL CAINE

Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil
vampires ...
RACHEL CAINE

Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We ...
RACHEL CAINE

This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It...
RACHEL CAINE

What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know.
RACHEL CAINE

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
RACHEL CAINE

What in the hell is going on around here?” she yelled. “Could you guys keep it down to aircraft-...
RACHEL CAINE

Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you ove...
RACHEL CAINE

Not bad,” she finally said. “At least you left out the oh-my-God sauce this time.”
“Mad...
RACHEL CAINE

You’re still here. No beer. I’m not corrupting a minor.”
“But you’re a minor,” she ...
RACHEL CAINE

Home," he repeated. "Home is where the heart is. Why don't you leave yours here? I'll take very good...
RACHEL CAINE

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Alw...
RACHEL CAINE

Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini,
RACHEL CAINE

And about Shane, I swear, if he doesn't snap out of it, I'm going to punch him in the face. Well, pu...
RACHEL CAINE

You shouldn't be afraid of me because I'm a vampire. You ought to be scared because you just trash-t...
RACHEL CAINE

Things happen. Things that physics and math and crap that gets measured in a lab can't explain. Peop...
RACHEL CAINE

We're not exactly going to the wilderness, Shane. You don't have to take everything. There are vendi...
RACHEL CAINE

Hell, I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.
RACHEL CAINE

shane:do we have a choice
michael:dont think so
shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go...
RACHEL CAINE

Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?"
"Sinc...
RACHEL CAINE

She thought, just for a second, that they were going to bare fangs at each other . . . and then Myrn...
RACHEL CAINE

Perv."
He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?
RACHEL CAINE

Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.
RACHEL CAINE

Michael!” Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy!...
RACHEL CAINE

Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much."
"Dick. That's not what you said last night."
RACHEL CAINE

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the succes...
MARK CAINE

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are th...
MARK CAINE

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which y...
MARK CAINE

I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass." RACHEL CAINE

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.
RACHEL CAINE

Shane looked down at the staked vamp at his feet. 'Claire?'
'Yes?'
'You staked a vampire w...
RACHEL CAINE

What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, ans...
RACHEL CAINE

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.
LYNN CAINE

After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach . . . Poke a s...
LYNN CAINE

Claire stretched out against the wall and kissed it. "Glad to see you, too," she whispered, and pres...
RACHEL CAINE

Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.”
“Mayb...
RACHEL CAINE

Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”
RACHEL CAINE

At the very leadt, we can grab Monica and hustle her skanky ass back to her dad wile you brave, stro...
RACHEL CAINE

Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anym...
RACHEL CAINE

I am never taking a trip with either of you ever again.' Eve said. 'Ever.'
Excellent' Shane sai...
RACHEL CAINE

Are you in the car that's almost caused three accidents on North Vance?" Hannah asked. "Because I'm ...
RACHEL CAINE

He looked down at himself and laughed softly. ‘‘My dark side dresses better than I do.’’ He ...
RACHEL CAINE

No,” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.”
“I’m stil...
RACHEL CAINE

Anybody else think that was weird?' Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperate...
RACHEL CAINE

I don’t see a way in,” Eve whispered.
Why are you whispering?” Myrnin whispered back. “...
RACHEL CAINE

It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what yo...
RACHEL CAINE

I didn't bring you here," he said. "You think you're Miss Special Destiny of the year?"
"No," I...
RACHEL CAINE

You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?"
He raised the bill of his olive drab ba...
RACHEL CAINE

What’s burning?”
“Your brain.
RACHEL CAINE

Claire: So we do nothing?
Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen.
RACHEL CAINE

There once was a kindly farmer who found a viper freezing on the ground in the snow. Please help me,...
RACHEL CAINE

And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.
RACHEL CAINE

Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her.

She ...
RACHEL CAINE

You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set as...
RACHEL CAINE

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

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Michael Caine

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

Michael Caine

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