Mike Figgis Quotes

I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.

Mike Figgis

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• I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Because
  • Fan
  • Big

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • History
  • Always
  • Phoenix

• I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Way
  • Never
  • Say

• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Food
  • Know

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Great
  • Baby
  • Sound

• Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Life
  • Women
  • May

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Best
  • Riled

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Death

• I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Home
  • Character

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • City
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • God
  • Think
  • Friend

• I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Song
  • Cool

• When you stop grabbing for things, sometimes the world just hands them to you, instead. Focusing on others is true success.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Hands
  • Focusing
  • Grabbing

• I don't believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Character

• I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Character
  • Kind
  • Situation