Michael Caine Quotes
When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
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I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
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That's something that's so often overlooked in this game - the dynamics of the locker room.
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As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways.
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So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
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I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.
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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
