Michael Caine Quotes

I've always played very human sort of characters.

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• I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Because
  • Fan
  • Big

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Sun

• If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

  

  Dan Malloy
  • Good
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • See
  • Page
  • Leap

• If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Business
  • Think
  • Model

• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Kids
  • Man
  • Film

• Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • School
  • Job

• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Me

• I can't say enough about 'OLTL's' strong cast.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Cast

• What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• Nothingness haunts being.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Future

• The virtual world can never be a substitute for real world experience. And the more it takes over our lives, the more we forget to feel the sun on our skin, the more we forget that there is an entire universe to be discovered even during a 10 minute walk to work.

  

  Keri Smith
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I've always been a girl's girl, and I've always enjoyed my girl friends' relationships, so I want the girls who follow me to feel like we're besties.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Friends
  • Girl

• Hatred, bigotry, and discrimination have no place in our country. We must work hard to make sure that America remains an inclusive and respectful country.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Country
  • America

• I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Work
  • Great
  • Character

• Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Friendship
  • Intimacy

• I've always played very human sort of characters.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Character
  • Humans