Mike Leigh Quotes
The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
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I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything.
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The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
