If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.