Michael Caine Quotes
When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.Michael Caine
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Laura Dern -
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
Uta Hagen -
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
Harold H. Greene -
The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
Abel Ferrara -
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
Gavin Newsom -
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
Alyssa Milano
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
Kevin Spacey -
Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
Kevin Spacey -
In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
Kevin Spacey -
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.
Keanu Reeves -
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
Alan Rickman -
It's not a casting call. This is not a test of who should be on the evening news. It's a test of how best to present a broadcast that plays a distinctive and important role in today's crowded news landscape.
Andrew Heyward
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My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.
Andy Rooney -
I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam Sandler -
I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.
Kristen Stewart -
I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.
Kristen Stewart -
Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book The Lord of the Rings which will break your heart.
C. S. Lewis -
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
William Shakespeare
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Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.
Eva Longoria -
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.
Marcel Proust -
The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
Thomas Nagel -
It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.
Esi Edugyan -
There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.
Michael Ende -
When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
Michael Caine