Michael Caine Quotes

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

Michael Caine

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• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Car

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Start

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Emotions

• There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Young

• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Education
  • Forgotten
  • Been

• The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Reality

• The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Talk
  • Street
  • Hometown

• Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Work
  • Way
  • Actors

• One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

  

  Cara Black
  • Power
  • Movement
  • Fitness

• No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Choice
  • Word
  • Will

• Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Happiness

• Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • School
  • College
  • Study

• Wars, conflict, it's all business. 'One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero'. Numbers sanctify.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Business
  • Hero

• I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

  

  Charli XCX
  • She

• My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Mom

• The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Different
  • True

• Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Law
  • Party
  • Tea

• Here's the thing, trust changes everything. Once you know what an artist can do, and you know their commitment level, it opens up the playbook hugely. I have worked with artists I really love, but they may have some small aspect that they hate drawing, or that they don't excel at, and that effectively takes that option off the table.

  

  Gail Simone
  • Hate
  • Artist
  • Commitment

• Sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • People
  • Laws
  • Blind

• Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Life
  • Good
  • Past

• I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Laughing
  • Cry