"I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars." ― Michael Caine Topic(s): Intelligence More From Michael Caine "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." "In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn’t know anyone unknown who didn’t become famous." "Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons." More In Intelligence "The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don’t understand what the real problems are."― Aldrich Ames "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."― Leonard Cohen "If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."― Samuel Johnson