Michael Caine Quotes
In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
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Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane. (ibid, p. 28)
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We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
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I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.
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And I swear that I don't have a gun.
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In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
