I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

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

I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

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've always played very human sort of characters.

As an actor, I'll play anything.