Mike Figgis Quotes

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

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• We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

  

  Tara Strong
  • Music
  • Scripts
  • Begins

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Make

• I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Stop

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Government

• Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Like
  • Always
  • Craftsmanship

• I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • Me
  • Learn

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Think
  • New York

• I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I'm constantly playing video games every day.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Video Games

• Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • History
  • Fly
  • Old

• One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Character
  • Horror
  • Mexican

• I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • House
  • Hate
  • Imagination

• I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Wife
  • Eating
  • Dull

• I've worked with a lot of beauty companies over the years, but I really have to say that my own routine is very natural; like, I really try to be careful about the stuff I'm putting into my body, onto my body. I do believe in beauty foods - like, a lot of blueberries, salmon, kale, quinoa, avocado.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Believe

• A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.

  

  Janet Weiss
  • People
  • Band

• Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.

  

  Jake Barton
  • Kids

• Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • World
  • Summer
  • Gold

• The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • World
  • Humorous
  • Tragic