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

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

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

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Annie Baker
  • Writing
  • College

• I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

  

  John Bonham Led Zeppelin
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • People
  • She
  • Job

• People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

  

  John Catsimatidis
  • People

• Can't trust a fascist-truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

  

  Matthew Stover
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Sacrifice

• Let there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Light
  • Sea
  • Sunrise

• We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • World
  • Art
  • Past

• I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

  

  Charlotte Bunch
  • Culture
  • Violence

• There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

  

  Pras Michel Fugees
  • Reality
  • Forever

• Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Made
  • Rotten

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

  

  Michael Caine
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  • Competition
  • Actors