Michael Caine Quotes

I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

Michael Caine

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Good
  • Future

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Poverty
  • Understand
  • Shows

• A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

  

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  • Up
  • Music
  • Game

• After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • Philosophy
  • First
  • Exams

• I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Love
  • Science

• I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Leaving
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• You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Different
  • Words
  • Same

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Artists
  • Very

• Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Been
  • Twitter
  • Travelling

• Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Winning

• I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Body

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

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  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

  

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  • Quality
  • First
  • Health care

• I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

  

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  • Character

• Nostalgia used to be called mal du Suisse - the Swiss sickness.

  

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  • Nostalgia
  • Sickness
  • Swiss

• I feel like, even in this crazy world of Trump getting elected and these things that really kind of caught me off-guard, I feel like I understand less than I did.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • World
  • Kind
  • Crazy

• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

  

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  • May

• I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

  

  Michael Caine
  • School
  • Boys
  • Cartoon