Michael Caine Quotes

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

Michael Caine

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• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Player
  • Enough

• I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Time
  • School
  • Model

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

  Beck
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  • Time
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• If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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  • Creative
  • Same

• I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • You
  • Need

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
  • Successful
  • Give Up

• As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Born
  • Now

• The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Human
  • Function
  • Exploration

• Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Evil
  • Enough
  • Admit

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• While President Obama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Real
  • May
  • Question

• Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Values
  • Your
  • Morals

• Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Memories

• So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Long
  • Friends

• Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Important
  • Day
  • Everyday

• It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Work
  • Kids

• When you're doing a single-camera show, it's more buying into a level of reality. I think a sitcom, a four-camera show, doesn't require that so much. I think with a film show, you just need the characters to grow.

  

  Darren Star
  • Reality
  • Single

• I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Different
  • Job
  • Theatre

• If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • People
  • Band
  • Bored

• For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Different
  • Character