Michael Caine Quotes

My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

The opportunity to earn a dollar…. just now is worth… more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.

I remember yelling at my mother one time, horribly. I was in tenth grade or something like that, and I hadn't done something, and she misunderstood because my stepfather told her something that was wrong that I hadn't done.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

Just make sure that you know what's going on with your money and you know where you money is coming from and how much is coming out and going in.

Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.

Parents just don't understand.

Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.

In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.