Michael Caine Quotes
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
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I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
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Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking
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Obviously movies like this Fast and the Furious 7 don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be special effects or sound editing or something like that.
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You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide serious injury that has occured! Malachi has only one ear and is now wearing one of those joke rubber ones - it's very noticeable but people are too polite to say!
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I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
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In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.
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I understood that this is not personal. I came in and I stood for something. For some people, I stood for change they didn’t want. It wasn’t really about me, it was just about the new directions for the academy, the new directions for our world, that are threatening to some people.
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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
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With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.
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The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.
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Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.
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I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
