Michael Caine Quotes

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

Michael Caine

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• The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Desire

• I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Loved
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Health
  • Sleep

• Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

  

  Gary Cole
  • You
  • Things
  • Point

• As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Alone
  • Matter
  • Author

• Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Family
  • Art
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Mind
  • May
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Mirror

• ‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?

  

  David Suzuki
  • Growing
  • Rock

• There's somebody out there for everyone.

  

  Brody Jenner

• 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.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Up

• As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • Up
  • Children
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Writing

• I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.

  

  David Chang
  • Work

• Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.

  

  Betty Gilpin

• 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.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Hand
  • Brain

• When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

  

  Geena Davis
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Friends

• The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Wisdom
  • Gay

• Consider the most famous pure dystopian tale of modern times, 1984, by George Orwell (1903-1950), published in 1948 (the same year in which Walden Two was published). I consider it an abominably poor book. It made a big hit (in my opinion) only because it rode the tidal wave of cold war sentiment in the United States.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Book
  • War
  • Opinion

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Choices
  • Egotistical