Michael Caine Quotes

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don't go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that's what most of the people I knew did.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell'arte play. I was given some small chances.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; it's just a part of me.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I could.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.