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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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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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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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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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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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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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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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
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I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
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Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
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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.
