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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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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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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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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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.
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I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
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At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
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My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
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Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
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If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.
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I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I'd go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn't send us the right order and demand they fix it. I've tried to make that right whenever I could.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
