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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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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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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The Nephilim was something I'd known about since I was really young. If you're familiar with the first book of the Bible, Genesis, you see the sons of God seduce some of the women on the earth and they produce a race of people known as the Nephilim. According to legend they taught man about war, astrology, and magic. I'm fascinated by the idea.
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A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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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.
