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

• My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.

  

  Ann Aguirre
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • World
  • Music
  • Listening

• If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

  

  Kit Williams

• Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happy
  • Idea
  • Persons

• I've been watching cop procedurals my entire life, so when I saw an opportunity to make fun of one, I jumped at it.

  

  Hayes MacArthur
  • Opportunity
  • Cop procedurals
  • Entire life

• 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