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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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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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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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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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
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Nick is driving us," Jamie informed him. "Nick has a car. Nick has TWO cars. Ha!
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
