Mike Leigh Quotes

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

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• Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Understand
  • Just
  • Privilege

• The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Unknown
  • Flesh
  • Surface

• I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • People Say

• How dull it is to have people defining you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • You
  • Dull

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Political
  • Decisions

• Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Job
  • Day
  • Player

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• The West as a whole in the early 1990s became obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forgot that the only real peace dividend is peace.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Real
  • Peace

• Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Good
  • Children

• It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • May
  • Truth
  • Selfish

• I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People

• We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Great
  • Kitchen

• I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • People
  • Option

• I've experienced, in general, in New York, people cut to the chase a little more, and they're a little bit more straightforward. In L.A. I've experienced more wishy-washiness. I will say, though, that the people that are actually from L.A. - like, born and raised in L.A. - are the real nice and genuine people.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • People
  • Real
  • Nice

• As the actors on the show we rarely get an opportunity to, as I said we get the scripts the night before but we have great producers on this show, so every once and a while matt or mike will say "I want to take the character in a different direction this season, what do you think about this?" and we do sort of get to add to it and feed it.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Great
  • Different
  • Character

• You have to do your thing no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

  

  Ethan Embry
  • Life
  • Matter

• The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Character
  • Matter
  • Actors