Michael Caine

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

Some men and women aren't looking for money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. They simply want to watch the world burn.