Michael Caine Quotes

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

Michael Caine

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• You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • You
  • Difference

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Right

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Less

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Really
  • Admit
  • Hubble

• I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Done
  • Think
  • Government

• I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Vulnerability
  • Fascinated

• I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Think

• I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Never
  • Had

• I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

  

  J. Cole
  • Up
  • House
  • Growing

• There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Queen
  • Heads
  • Latifah

• I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Work
  • Best
  • Attitude

• Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Men
  • Age

• Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.

  

  Janet Leigh
  • Sad
  • Matter
  • Promise

• I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

  

  John C. McGinley
  • Imagination
  • Bored
  • Stimulated

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • You

• There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • World
  • Country
  • Reflection

• But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.

  

  David Foenkinos
  • Persons
  • Possibility
  • Frightened

• When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Young
  • Stars
  • Lovers