Mike Leigh Quotes

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • You
  • Child
  • Divorce

• Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Doctors
  • Washington

• I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Business
  • Learned
  • Roll

• Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Long
  • Liberty

• I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Poetry
  • Eye

• It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Needs
  • Story

• Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Together
  • System
  • Take

• Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Singing
  • Look
  • Divorce

• Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Think
  • Garden
  • Modern

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Men
  • Food
  • Cook

• For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • World
  • Art
  • Science

• By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Government
  • Years
  • Ethnic

• As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.

  

  J. Cole
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Successful

• I am, and remain, passionate about news.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • News
  • Passionate

• For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Science

• You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Moment

• I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Soul

• Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • World
  • May
  • Stills

• With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Film

• Meloy's balladry brings to mind vaudeville, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, 'Sweeney Todd,' the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Kurt Weill and Nick Cave, 1960s psychedelic rock pop and roaring pub sing-alongs.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Ragtime
  • Vaudeville
  • Meloy

• All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • History
  • Determination

• If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.

  

  Zac Efron
  • School
  • High
  • Marine

• I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Play
  • Film