#mer

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

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot. ↗

— Brendan Fehr

#because #camera #character #excuse #feel

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling. ↗

— Brendan Fehr

#character #good #me #never #out

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#crust #heavy #i #i think #really

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#segregated #some #theatres #times #us

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. ↗

— John Calvin

#any #attributes #damnation #display #eternal

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? ↗

— John Calvin

#convictions #faith #implicitly #merely #nothing

Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#american #american workers #both #compete #countries