Michael Caine Quotes

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Michael Caine

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• When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • House
  • Song

• I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Guy
  • Ideas
  • Hair

• You cannot rely on other people's support.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Long
  • Friends
  • American

• I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Environment

• I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Business
  • Team
  • Sports

• Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Children
  • Happiness
  • Laughter

• It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Name
  • Scene
  • Teased

• You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Thoughts

• This film [Doctor Strange] kind of takes that everyday boring reality and really bursts it wide. So we talked a lot about that. In many ways there's something very practical about this world, the Kamar-Taj. It's - You know, we all look like samurai warriors, but actually there are iPads everywhere and there's a feeling that it's a practical possibility for this modern world that the Doctor Strange universe is functioning, and that we know it and it's around the corner for all of us.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Reality
  • Feelings
  • Everyday

• Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Real
  • Liberty

• If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

  

  Confucius
  • Try
  • Achieve
  • Too Much

• I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Champion
  • Winner
  • Mentality

• As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.

  

  Erin Maya Darke
  • Writing
  • Actor
  • Scripts

• The sense of acting being teamwork was a mentality that I took from school: I studied with wonderful people, and I wanted them to be proud of me.

  

  Susan Lucci
  • School
  • Acting
  • Mentality

• I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.

  

  Ariana Madix
  • Nonsense
  • Let
  • Slide

• You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Shirts
  • Adultery
  • Infidelity

• My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Scripts
  • Mentality
  • Retired