Michael Caine Quotes

It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

Michael Caine

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• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationship

• I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Success
  • Lucky
  • Deserve

• Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Art

• The impact we have on people's lives, to me, is more important than any title anyone can carry.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • People
  • Important

• Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Game
  • Winners

• Never settle for second when first is available

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Firsts
  • Available
  • Settling

• I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • God
  • Existence
  • Made

• Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Criminal
  • Classes

• Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Lying
  • Hollywood
  • Bigs

• The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Real
  • Together

• I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

  

  Róisín Murphy
  • Trying
  • Connected
  • Bloody

• There is something sadder to lose than life – the reason for living; Sadder than to lose one's possessions is to lose one's hope.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Living

• I really get pursued by men in their 20s, like, a lot. They probably know there's food in the fridge and that somebody's going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Knows
  • Asks
  • Pursued

• If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!

  

  William Mortensen
  • Emotional
  • Records
  • Without

• It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

  

  Michael Caine
  • Records
  • Asks
  • Bent