#erica

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America. ↗

— Michael Caine

#alfie #america #became #first #first time

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl. ↗

— Michael Caine

#because #get #girl #going #got

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out. ↗

— Michael Caine

#america #been #directly #garbage #january

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. ↗

— Michael Caine

#blond #blond hair #boy #cool #created

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. ↗

— Michael Caine

#accent #always #american #american cinema #any

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#antagonism #economic #economic freedom #freedom #gold

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. ↗

— James T. Farrell

#almost #america #be true #equally #everything

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates. ↗

— Francine Busby

#arab #emirates #i #learn #operations

You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#day #every #every single day #help #maybe

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#engaged #face #gentler #herself #high