Mike Leigh Quotes

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.

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• We are driven to win a title. We want to see that day when everyone celebrates because we finally brought a title home to Northeast Ohio. It's what we want, what LeBron wants, what all of us want.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Home
  • Day
  • Win

• I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Literature
  • Pride
  • Books

• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Change
  • Control

• 'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Work
  • Way
  • Working

• When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Play
  • Teacher
  • Student

• The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Fear
  • Boy

• The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Die

• If you're doing something like scheduling utility payments to come through your debit card or out of your personal checking account, that's perfectly fine. But there are much safer ways to handle situations with debt collectors. You can send a money order overnight, or wire the cash to them.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Money

• Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

  

  David Gest
  • People

• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Women
  • Family

• Players do not come out of the closet because they are afraid. We have to appear hard and strong, but we are afraid of what people will say about us. Of course, I have nothing against anyone. I respect everybody.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • People
  • Strong
  • Respect

• In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Women
  • Children
  • Today

• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Long
  • Friends

• Even when I played in little league as a kid, I liked making friends, but I didn't want to be there, really.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Friends

• I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'

  

  David Duchovny
  • Ocean

• I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Important
  • Fashion

• You'd be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Business
  • Tea

• I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.

  

  Susan Straight
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Anything

• When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • History
  • Period

• I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.

  

  Mike Leigh