You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

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 come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.