Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
Michael CaineFor all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael CaineTheater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
Michael CaineThe standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael CaineI was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
Michael Caine