Mike Figgis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
-
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
-
Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
-
When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
-
As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
-
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
-
I've always refused to play terrorists.
-
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
-
A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.
-
What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac.
-
I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
-
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
-
When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
-
If I could read it, I could play it.
-
My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
-
Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
-
As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.
-
It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
-
Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.
-
I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?
-
Whatever you do as an artist, people have to have an experience. It's not about the details or the wrong note or what tuning the piano is. It doesn't matter. It all doesn't matter. It only matters what people think when they leave the room and what their impression was.
-
The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
-
I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
