Michael Caine Quotes

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

Michael Caine

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• It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Better
  • Yourself

• With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • People
  • Long
  • Home

• All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Admire

• Actors don't have real value.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Real
  • Value
  • Real Value

• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfort

• I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Father
  • Me
  • Windows

• It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Safe
  • Insecurity

• I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Children
  • Energy

• You who speak languages, you are such liars.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • You
  • Speak
  • Liars

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Female

• You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Knowledge
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • She
  • Party
  • Lies

• The International Girl Crew isn't supposed to be super exclusive - that's a really important part of our brand and message. It's not just our crew - it's a lifestyle. It's for everybody to know how empowering it is to be surrounded by friends who motivate and support you and who you feel like you can exchange ideas with and do projects with.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Girl

• Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Done
  • Help
  • Earth

• I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • You
  • Moment
  • Permanent

• Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.

  

  Emma Stone
  • John Cusack
  • Boom Box
  • Ride off

• I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Life
  • God
  • Thinking

• Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Science
  • Faith

• Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.

  

  Edgar Morin
  • Earth
  • Education
  • Humanity

• The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Trouble

• I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Rich
  • Poor