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.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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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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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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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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A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
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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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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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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
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This acting was very hard work.
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My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
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Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.
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The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
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We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views of life; and their examples of what it is to be a man or a woman follow us throughout life. Acknowledging the power of our loyalty to them, and especially our loyalty to our same-sex parent, is only the beginning of our journey to improve upon their model; but it is at least a first step.
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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.
