Michael Caine Quotes
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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Everybody grows but me.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.
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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
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Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.
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Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.
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I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.
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We hope the report won't sit on the shelf somewhere but that it actually gets into the currency of political thinking. With the mayor and council races coming up next year, I think there's a good chance that it will.
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I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
