Michael Caine Quotes
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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Life is a school of probability.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
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It's not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.
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Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.
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The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold.
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I found out that I'd broken up with someone when I wasn't even aware I was going out with them!
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Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.
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I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
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I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
