Michael Caine Quotes
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I don't really yell at people.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.
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A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
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What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.
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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
