Michael Caine Quotes
Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.
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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness 'to act alone,' its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
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We have a saying in the union: 'If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possibility is that he is a duck.' That is the way with a Communist. If the guy does everything that the party does, the prospects are very good that he is a party member or fellow traveler.
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If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.
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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
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When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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If people don't connect to Eric Carter's struggles, I'm sure they'll find a character in this series to connect to. That's ultimately what it's about for me.
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Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don't think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity.
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I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
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Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.
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I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.
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Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
