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
A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of subtlety and craftsmanship in fashion, suggesting that true style should be understated yet effective.
Michael Caine's quote highlights the idea that the best fashion is often unnoticed; it is the quality and craftsmanship behind the clothing that sets it apart. A well-dressed person should not draw attention to their attire's specifics but rather exude a certain elegance and confidence that comes from the excellent tailoring and materials used, demonstrating how artful design can enhance a person's presence without being overtly flashy.
In practice
In a fashion seminar discussing the impact of tailored clothing on perception.
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.
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.
So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...
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