Mike Binder Quotes
I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.
Quotes to Explore
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
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When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.
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I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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When I was younger, I did have some dresses that weren't the best fits, and it can definitely affect you during a match - if you're having to constantly pull the dress down, for example!
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You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.
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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.
