Michael Caine Quotes
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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I like to work.
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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.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
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If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.
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Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
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Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.
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We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions.
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Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.
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But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
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I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
