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.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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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.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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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.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
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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.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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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.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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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.
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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.
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One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.
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Now I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and that Hillary Clinton's going to kick his ass, to now overreacting, and saying, "Oh my God, 60 million people consciously endorsed a white supremacist for president."
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
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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.
