Mike Leigh Quotes

One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

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• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Book
  • Man

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • You
  • Easy

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Never

• If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • You
  • Never
  • Elephant

• All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Best
  • Try

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Advocate

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Dying

• I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Characters
  • Enemies

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Trying
  • Body
  • Down

• In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Talk

• I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Home
  • Pretty

• The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • You
  • Give
  • Theater

• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Music
  • Country
  • Thing

• I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Way
  • Learn
  • Skills

• I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

  

  Steve Martin
  • Different
  • Wish
  • Film

• One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

  

  Mike Leigh
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