Michael Caine Quotes

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

Michael Caine

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• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• From caring comes courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Caring

• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  

  Origen
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Mystery

• If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Comedians

• This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • God
  • Idea
  • Compassion

• I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• I'm not getting recognized because I posed in a swimsuit edition of some magazine, but because of what I do on the field, and that's important to me.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Important
  • Me
  • Recognized

• I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Know
  • Insomnia

• Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ideas
  • Audience
  • Connection

• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Judged
  • Cross of Christ

• It's going to be hard, because he hasn't played in one year, ... I don't care how good you are, baseball is a game of conditioning and timing. But, knowing him ? he's so strong mentally ? you never know. We'll see what happens. It's going to be very, very interesting to see.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Good
  • Game
  • Strong

• Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Career
  • Actors

• I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • Long
  • Talent

• All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

  

  Adhir Kalyan
  • Inspiration
  • Actors
  • Characters

• Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Strategy
  • Poem

• Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the process rather than the result.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • People
  • Real
  • Night

• I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Talent