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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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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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 husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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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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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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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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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
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Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.
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Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.
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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
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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.
