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 love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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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 duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
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I don't see Arijit Singh as a competition at all. That's because we both have a very different style of singing. In fact, I really appreciate what he's been able to bring to the playback singing industry.
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There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
