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 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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Focus on personal growth instead of comparing yourself to others.
In this quote, Michael Caine emphasizes the importance of self-competition rather than measuring oneself against others. He highlights that personal improvement and self-reflection are critical for progress, fostering a mindset that seeks to surpass one's own past achievements.
Themes
Self-ImprovementPersonal GrowthMotivationCompetitionCriticism
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about self-growth and personal goals.
More from Michael Caine
All quotes →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.
Michael CaineRead
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!
Michael CaineRead
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.
Michael CaineRead
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
Michael CaineRead
Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
Michael CaineRead
Similar quotes
Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!
Eric ThomasRead
We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
Bill GatesRead
Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.
Zig ZiglarRead
Focus on the solution, not on the problem.
Jim RohnRead
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.
B. C. ForbesRead
Every situation can be substantially improved; even the sky is not the limit.
Eliyahu GoldrattRead