Michael Caine Quotes
To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
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I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.
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My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.
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We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.
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I didn't know a damn thing about style.
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Be with Allah, You will find Allah with you.
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To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
