Michael Caine Quotes
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
Quotes to Explore
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.
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Film is more of a dream when you're younger. I found it almost impossible to see how you would get into the industry having no connections, nobody in the family being anywhere near it and never meeting anybody that had been on a set.
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I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.
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The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
