#ge

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#defects #everything #excellent #forgive #general

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

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?' ↗

— Michael Caine

#between #change #difference #how #i

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do. ↗

— Michael Caine

#ever #first #i #lone #lone ranger

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis. ↗

— Roger Federer

#anymore #because #came #come #enjoy

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#carrying #devastated #eternity #i #idea

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience. ↗

— John Cale

#because #only #onstage #reason #sight

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure. ↗

— John Cale

#amount #beforehand #certain #certain things #even

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble. ↗

— Craig Charles

#downtime #get #i #into #like

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football. ↗

— John Cale

#i #instead #led #life #missed