Michael Caine Quotes
I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
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I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.
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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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I'm not sure that 'Iron Man' is a superhero movie. I think towards the end of the movie, Iron Man pretends to be a superhero - he's entertained by that notion. I think 'X-Men' is a sci-fi movie.
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I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
