Michael Caine Quotes
I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back, so I eventually said yes.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.
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The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my stay here as 13 years of postgraduate work; I think I'm ready for the world.
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Working with one of the best strength trainers in the world, I'm getting more dangerous. I'm getting stronger and stronger.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.
