Michael Caine Quotes
I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
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Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.
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The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
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In high school, we used to sign to each other during the game, signaling different plays and stuff like that. It was kind of fun. It was definitely unique.
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
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So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.
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The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
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I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
