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.
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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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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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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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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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I love actors.
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It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.
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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
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The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.
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People find life entirely too time-consuming.
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French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.
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Man, see, you should have picked up that bat and baseball and learned to play the game when we were trying to teach you. You ain't going to make no money in journalism.
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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.
