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

• Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Desire
  • Authenticity
  • Hard Times

• All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Giving
  • Artist
  • Choices

• God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • God
  • Happy
  • Animals

• My philosophy for producing a record is for everyone involved, including myself, to get out of the way of the song, and at the same time, listen to it as closely as you can, and listen to where the song wants to go.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Song
  • Philosophy

• 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