Michael Caine Quotes

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

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• My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Path

• 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.

  

  Jack Black
  • Play
  • Tough
  • Transition

• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Government
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Fire

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Power
  • Feel
  • Communication

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Want

• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Forty

• Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Great
  • Right
  • Shine

• You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

  

  Gallagher
  • American
  • City
  • Year

• We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Competition

• By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.

  

  Erich Ludendorff
  • People
  • Respect
  • Revolution

• Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Relationship
  • Alone
  • Honor

• Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Law

• I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Kind

• I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Film
  • Foreigners