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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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
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Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us. Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer. Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again. Love heals, forgives, and makes whole.
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But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
