Mike Leigh Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
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They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
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Those who don’t have a dream, it’s okay, it’s okay if you don’t have a dream. You just have to be happy.
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I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
