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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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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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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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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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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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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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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... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.
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People think I don’t know anything because I’m young, but who’s to say what 15 feels like? I feel everything ten times more. It’s like shut the fuck up; I just want to be me.
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It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
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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.
