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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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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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 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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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.
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There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. The content can never be disconnected from the surface, and this active interest in surface can never be disregarded from the good art that we admire.
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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
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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.
