Michael Caine Quotes
I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
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Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
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Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
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As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.
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I helped my dad do landscaping from when I was 14, and then every summer when I'd come home for college, I'd play on a travel baseball team, but during the day, I'd do landscaping.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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I started doing home brew stuff with my dad when I was younger.
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I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
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I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.
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John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'
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Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.
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I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.
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You know, a meme is now circulating that's called the Ostrich Brigade. And it's used to describe all those people who are burying their heads in the sand. I call it the three D strategy. It's denial, deflection, and a demonization of those of us who want to speak honestly about these issues of extremism.
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Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
