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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Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
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A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]
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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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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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No one has the answer; only you know the way home.
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It's been strong and I haven't had any so-called setbacks or real soreness in the last few workouts. If I can get through today's practice with the team, I'd like to play tomorrow night against the Isles, but that would be up to coach Mike Sullivan. But I think the training staff is pushing for tomorrow to be my return date.
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Is it not quite a modern vice, this habit of draining a canvas at a single glance as some people gulp down a cocktail, and complaining of unintelligibility and complication whenever a work requires study and patience on the part of the spectator?
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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.
