Michael Caine Quotes
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.
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I love actors.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
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I've been doing music for many years and after a point what is the motivation that drives you to compose and to do stuff? I did this song for the U.N., a fighting for poverty anthem. That's when I realized that I could do a foundation. And when I started the foundation, it was basically to fight poverty and to help - that kind of stuff.
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You have to be smart. He went from hero to zero, getting the pole position and doing what he did.
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The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is indeed possible for a committed, relatively small number of folks across the country to make Congress listen to them and to slow and stop an agenda.
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The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
