Michael Caine Quotes
It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.
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I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
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Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.
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My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.
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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
