My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

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.

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.