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
I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.
Interpretation
Focus on the present moment rather than worrying about past or future actions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being fully present in the current moment and not letting past mistakes or future concerns affect one's performance. Michael Caine suggests that dwelling on past outcomes can lead to insecurity and anxiety, and instead, advocates for a fresh perspective with each new opportunity.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming performance anxiety in sports.
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.
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
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