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.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Always
  • Wishes
  • Philippines

• 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.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Art
  • Question
  • Cool

• We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Very
  • Fortunate
  • Were

• 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?

  

  Garth Stein
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Speak

• The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Underdog
  • Lunatic
  • Wags

• 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.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Organization

• Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Opportunity
  • Practice

• 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.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Children
  • Faith
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Different
  • Light
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Home
  • Team
  • Dad

• Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Character

• I started doing home brew stuff with my dad when I was younger.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Home
  • Dad

• I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

  

  Aviva
  • Done

• I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Remember

• John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

  

  Craig Kilborn

• 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.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Work
  • School
  • Art

• I'm a technology person, but I'm not a science person.

  

  Sunil Nagaraj
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Person

• The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Building

• The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and will forever - but on the whole, it was the art of American storytelling in the kind of folk and blues lyrics that, if you scratch a little bit, there's a heartbreaking story there.

  

  George Ezra
  • Music
  • Art
  • American

• Eye hath not seen, tongue hath not told, And ear hath not heard it sung, How buoyant and bold, though it seem to grow old, Is the heart, forever young; - Forever young, - though life's old age Hath every nerve unstrung: The heart, the heart, is a heritage That keeps the old man young!

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Age

• I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Forever
  • Competition
  • Actors