Michael Caine Quotes

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

Michael Caine

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• My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

• 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

• One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • Words
  • Myself
  • Meaning

• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Done
  • Want
  • Find

• The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Want
  • Achieve
  • Nation

• I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Dream
  • Kitchen
  • Custom-made

• I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Done
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Instruments
  • Attack

• When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Vision
  • Goal
  • Clear

• I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Feels
  • Scary

• Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • People
  • Time
  • Inheritance

• It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Music
  • High
  • Sky

• History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.

  

  T. M. Scanlon
  • Country
  • History
  • Inspired

• I always get bored, and I like to do different things, but it isn't something I'm going to do in the near future.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Different
  • Future
  • Things

• There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things.

  

  Michelle Gomez
  • Difference
  • Actresses
  • Admitting

• If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Actors
  • Talented

• My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Shadow

• I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Body
  • Feels
  • Circumstances

• Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • Wall
  • Actors
  • Process

• I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Awkward