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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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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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.
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Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.
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The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
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Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
