Michael Caine Quotes

My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

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• My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

• The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Wind
  • Difficult
  • Very

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Girl
  • Red
  • Hot

• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Done
  • Want
  • Find

• I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

  

  Neko Case
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Done
  • Character
  • Pretty

• I'm from Southampton.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Southampton

• I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Music
  • God
  • Name

• A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

  

  V. Vale Blue Cheer
  • True
  • Eye
  • Unique

• I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Power
  • Infinite

• Hillary Clinton is trying an entirely different approach with Iowa than the one she tried eight years ago when she lost there. She will not start speeches by saying, 'Hello, Iowa, or Idaho, or whichever one you are.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Different
  • Trying
  • She

• I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Universe

• I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Secret

• I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

  

  Sean Patrick Flanery
  • Good
  • Persons
  • Kings

• That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.

  

  Jeff Fahey
  • Remember
  • Actors
  • Gift

• I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • People
  • Important
  • Attention

• I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Stars

• TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow passengers sitting in front of their personal TV sets. They were just having the greatest time, there was so much joy in their eyes, .. And I looked to see what they were watching. And it was all out-and-out comedies. So many people watching The Longest Yard. And I just got the feeling that, 'You know what? People just like to let it all go, and have a laugh'.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Circles
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