Michael caine

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

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.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

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

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

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 am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.