“There’s a motto I got from a producer in repertory theater. I was in rehearsals, waiting behind a door to come out while a couple onstage were having a row. They started throwing furniture, and a chair lodged in front of the door. My cue came and I could only get halfway in. I stopped and said, ‘I can’t get in. The chair’s in the way.’ And the producer said, ‘Use the difficulty.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said, ‘ Well, if it’s a drama, pick it up and smash it. If it’s a comedy, fall over it.’ This idea stuck in my mind, and I taught it to my children – that any situation in life that’s negative, there is something positive you can do with it. ‘Use the difficulty.’ It’s like a motto in our family.”

-Michael Caine