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?
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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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.
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.
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Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
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I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.
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I have a lot of albums yet to do.
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Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.
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You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter of having pride in yourself.
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Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.
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I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.
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I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.
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An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
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It's something I think about: children are such a blessing.
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The busier you get, and the more forward-looking you become, the more difficult it is to actually acknowledge and gain strength and inspiration from the things you've already accomplished, which can become problematic when you're in a startup.
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The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
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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?
