Michael Caine Quotes
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
-
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
-
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
-
I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
-
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
-
Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
-
To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
-
The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
-
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
-
Gloves make you so much more delicate.
-
Delhi is full of energy. It is special to me because I have shot my first film here, and it is closer to my home town Chandigarh. I love the food, the vibe, and the people here.
-
The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
-
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
-
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
-
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
-
I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
-
Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.
-
I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.
-
I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.
-
I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
-
A feathered arrow without a barb,” said he, “is a good weapon, but a barbed arrow without feathers is utterly useless.
-
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
