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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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
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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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Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
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Live simply, so that all may simply live.
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I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
