Michael Lehmann Quotes

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

Michael Lehmann

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• An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • High
  • Successful
  • Facts

• I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Song
  • Process

• You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Know
  • Simple

• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Losing
  • Tough

• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Money
  • Hollywood
  • Line

• I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Star
  • Holiday

• When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Find
  • Get

• I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • World
  • Real
  • Think

• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Always
  • Camera

• I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Never
  • Will

• It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Government

• I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Father
  • Me
  • Windows

• Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Service

• I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Lesley said that my exes knew that past a certain point I’d lost interest, and that’s why they always packed me in first. That’s not the way I remember it, but Lesley swore she could have constructed a calendar based on my love life. A cyclical one, she said, like the Maya – counting down to disaster. Lesley could be surprisingly erudite sometimes.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Interest
  • Disaster
  • I Remember

• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Dream

• I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • Think
  • Characters
  • Female