Mike Leigh Quotes
The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.
Quotes to Explore
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
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Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
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When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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I eat healthily because that's the way I prefer to eat, and I'm sure it helps keep the weight off.
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The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
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I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.
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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.
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During the fall of my junior year, I interned in Intergovernmental Affairs in The White House with a focus on outreach to local elected officials. Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.
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The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.
