Michael Caine Quotes

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

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• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • True
  • Idea
  • Just

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Children
  • You
  • Television

• So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Career
  • Want
  • Comedy

• We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Humanity

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• I can't act without music very well.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Music
  • Act
  • Without

• To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• Medio de fonte leporumsurgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat.

  

  Lucretius

• You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.

  

  Doc Rivers
  • Done
  • Growing
  • Winning

• My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Music
  • Responsibility

• I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

  

  Derek Bailey

• In the district I represent, I have to talk to everybody.

  

  Pete Gallego

• Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Dad
  • Car
  • Swimming

• Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Up

• I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Passion

• Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Great
  • Food
  • Perfect

• Hey, I was raised in the church.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Church

• You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • People
  • Chaos

• I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Trying
  • Simplicity

• I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Lasts