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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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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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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Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teaching of music; persons who know me well could recognize some truth in those seemingly errant prognoses.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.
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I want to do acting as much as I can. When you're on contract with a show, you can't really do other shows. It's hard to do film. I haven't had the opportunity to even audition much for films because I don't have an agent.
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
