12 Most Memorable Michael Caine Movie Quotes

9. "Andrew, don't forget, be sure and tell them, it was all just a bloody game." (Sleuth)

Caine has a curious history with the movie Sleuth €“ he starred as the lower-class Milo opposite Laurence Olivier's upper-class Andrew in the 1972 original, and he later played Andrew in the 2007 remake opposite Jude Law as Milo. However, the original (where this particular line comes from) is generally considered to be superior. Regardless of the version, Sleuth is about two men who try to settle a grudge with their attempts to one-up each other in a deadly competition of blackmail and betrayal. The clever cat-and-mouse battle of wits that follows continues to escalate in its stakes until Caine's final line in the film, which reveals to Olivier's character in his moment of "triumph" that he has actually lost. However, Caine's character delivers the line as he is dying, so he is as much of a loser to this "game" as his adversary. Nonetheless, it is a parting shot that shows Olivier's character that he has finally been beaten by a man he considers his inferior in the deadly competition that started as nothing more than "a bloody game." This one line wraps up the entire twisting plot of this brilliantly confounding mystery movie. Without this line, the game (and the movie itself) would not be complete.