Michael Caine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
-
When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
-
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
-
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.
-
It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
-
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
-
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
-
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.
-
I love recording music.
-
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
-
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
-
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
-
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
-
I believe in forgiveness.
-
I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
-
And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
-
Compromise has a negative connotation.
-
I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
-
I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
-
It was really uncharted territory in terms of how you do these things. We're very pleased with how well they're functioning.
-
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
-
[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.
-
I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
-
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
