Michael Caine Quotes
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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We want New Hampshire to be a haven for entrepreneurs and inventors - the people who are creating the products and good-paying jobs of the future.
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You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.
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We chose to do a reality show with my husband Dean McDermott, because we wanted to give the reality of our situation, not to kind of mask it if the things got kind of uncomfortable. So we pretty much put it all out there and I think the viewers will appreciate that.
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My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
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You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
