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.
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I am a Buddhist.
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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.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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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.
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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.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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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.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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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.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.
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I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.
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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
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It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that they liked. I remember we sent out about six tapes. We heard that we were this one kid's favorite band so we sent a tape that said, "Hey this is Motörhead. It's time to wake up."
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
