Michael Caine Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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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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Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
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If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.
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Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.
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I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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I feel like we will have better opportunities as we go along.
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I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.
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You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
