Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
Michael CaineRead
Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep connection to faith, suggesting that life's experiences can lead one to belief in a higher power.
Michael Caine reflects on his life experiences, implying that the hardships and challenges he faced have resulted in a belief in God. This statement underscores the notion that spirituality may arise from personal struggles and the need for hope in difficult times.
In practice
During a religious discussion at a community center.
Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...
To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.
You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des RΓͺves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.
What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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