Michael Caine Quotes

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

Michael Caine

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• The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Nightmare

• I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Things
  • Travel
  • Idea

• I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Life
  • Family
  • Feminist

• I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Live

• It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Film
  • Nightmare
  • Inescapability

• he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Monster
  • Nightmare
  • Monsters

• I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • House
  • Red

• Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Nightmare
  • Ted Cruz
  • Electoral

• The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Voice
  • Horror
  • Melancholy

• His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

  

  William Gibson
  • Smile
  • Nightmare
  • Pockets

• I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Inspire

• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Honest
  • Musicians
  • Nightmare

• The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Number

• Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Desire
  • Blood
  • Nightmare

• I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And there are days you're great and days you're not great.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Great
  • Divorce
  • Nightmare

• Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Percent
  • Nightmare

• It's one of the worst nightmare situations we could create for a young character, having the people who are supposed to believe in you keep telling you you're nothing.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Character
  • Nightmare

• I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something -- and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and... they come back on television, those movies... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Movies

• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Constitution
  • Rule
  • Americans

• Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Workers
  • Thousand
  • Hundred

• The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Love
  • Modesty
  • Maiden

• If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • God
  • Mind
  • Word

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

  

  Michael Caine
  • Nightmare
  • Bourgeois
  • Cockneys