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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Conscience is God present in man.
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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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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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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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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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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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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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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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Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.
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Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.
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Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!
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I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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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.
