Michael Caine Quotes

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

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• A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Respect
  • View

• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

  

  E. B. White
  • Space
  • See
  • View

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Time
  • Control

• There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Believing
  • Liberal

• He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Death
  • Sin
  • Glory

• When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Helpful

• I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Great
  • Driving
  • New York

• I've played sports and been active my whole life.

  

  Warren Christie
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Active

• No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Justice

• Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Out
  • Carried
  • Atrocities

• The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Members
  • Judges
  • Judiciary

• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Want
  • Government
  • Quality

• I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Political
  • Without

• We created about 300 ambassadors for us, ... It's free advertising, and we're getting some great feedback from them.

  

  Ann Wright
  • Advertising
  • Feedback
  • Ambassadors

• My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Great
  • Music
  • Age

• Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Good
  • High
  • House

• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Agreed
  • Fable

• Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.

  

  Moshe Dayan
  • House
  • Generations
  • Possessing

• For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

  

  Michael Caine
  • House
  • Rules
  • Accents