Michael Caine Quotes

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

Michael Caine

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• During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

  

  Questlove
  • Political
  • Me
  • Wise

• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Word

• Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Music
  • Business

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • You
  • Difference

• I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Really
  • Consider

• The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Made
  • Natural

• When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Old
  • Him
  • Bond

• You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Want
  • You
  • Message

• Every crowd has a silver lining.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Crowd
  • Silver
  • Lining

• It is better to be likable than to be talented.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Better
  • Talented
  • Likable

• The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Men
  • Age
  • Man

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Fear

• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Art
  • Humanity

• If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • People

• The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Men

• Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Bad
  • Attention
  • Present

• Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • World
  • Great
  • Bad

• If you worry about making bogeys, it makes the game that much more difficult. You put more pressure on yourself without even noticing it. It makes a difference to take it easy when things aren't going right.

  

  Sergio Garcia
  • Worry
  • Difficult
  • Easy

• I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Play
  • Difficult

• So what do they do? They start writing articles in the New York Daily News. Boy, that's a paper that loves to write crap on people, isn't it? Wanna talk about a paper that supports fascism! Man, I've seen more doctors hatcheted in there. The butchery they did on Emmanuel Revici, the butchery they did on Lawrence Burton, calling him nothing more -- what was the quote the guy said?. . . "Burton is nothing more than a horse doctor." Denigrating him, tearing down his character.

  

  Gary Null
  • Character
  • Support
  • Horse

• Zippy is living in the moment.

  

  Bill Griffith

• To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Character
  • Difficult
  • Disappear