Michael Caine Quotes
People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I have a great office.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.
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God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
