Michael Caine Quotes
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole in a doughnut. It's munching on what isn't.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
