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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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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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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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.
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
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It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.
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If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.
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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.
