Michael Caine Quotes
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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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.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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When I grow up I wanna be like Omar
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Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
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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.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
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I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.
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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.
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It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it ... I want to see dynamic characters and roles that everyone wants to watch.
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I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: “It’s better than nothing.
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I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.
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It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.
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L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.
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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
