Michael Caine Quotes
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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I write music every day.
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When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.
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Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
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What the eye can see won't get us very far. And what it can see is so limited, so restricted. But a gouache or an oil painting can be seen at a glance, can take in a whole world at a single glance.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
