Michael Caine

"You cannot force inspiration - you must create the conditions for it."

"I've always believed that age is just a number."

"The key to success is knowing your strengths and using them."

"I think the greatest adventure is becoming who you're meant to be."

"You must never lose hope, even in the darkest times."

"The most important thing is to leave the world better than you found it."

"I believe in the transformative power of art and storytelling."

"The thing about movies is that you don't watch them with your brain, you watch them with your eyes and ears and your heart."

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but paddling like the dickens underneath."

"I've never been interested in being the best, just in being better than yesterday."

"The British love eccentrics. They just don't like them living in their houses."

"You cannot have a decent life without working, unless you inherited money."

"My motto is: contented, but never satisfied."

"I won an Oscar, which is very nice and all, but it doesn't really change your life."

"I'm not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm bright enough to pay attention."

"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people: those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."

"The worst thing you can do to anybody is to tell them they can't do something."

"I've got to say that acting is what keeps me young."

"You have to believe you can succeed before you can succeed."

"I'm a big believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

"Education is important, but it's not the be-all and end-all."

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the chance to doubt yourself."

"Poor people don't go on holiday; we go on trips."

"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

"Life is like a film. Some parts are tragic, some are comic, some are beautiful."

"You must never be satisfied with what you achieve because the moment you are satisfied, you become stale."

"I think the main thing is to keep working and to keep believing in yourself."

"The secret to a long life is to stay busy and interested in things."

"I never discuss my wife publicly, that's the key to a long marriage."

"Do not pity the dead, pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love."