Michael Caine Quotes
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
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There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.
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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.
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Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.
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Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.
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I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of words that I don't usually use in day-to-day life.
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Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.
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I'm very grateful for the way that I feel when I play. I feel very powerful, I feel fast, I feel unstoppable, and that's because of my body.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.
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In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. “We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.
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A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
