Michael Caine Quotes
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
-
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
-
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.
-
I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
-
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
-
I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.
-
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
-
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.
-
The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
-
I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.
-
I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
-
Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
-
When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.
-
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.
-
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
-
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.
-
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
-
When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow, I am planted with every foot-step, growing, budding, blooming into a spirit of spring.
-
Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
-
The frontal lobes allow us to plan and reflect, to imagine and play out future scenarios.
-
Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.
-
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
