Mike Leigh Quotes
It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
Quotes to Explore
-
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
-
When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
-
There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
-
I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
-
Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
-
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
-
I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
-
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
-
You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
-
I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
-
I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
-
All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
-
I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
-
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
-
I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
-
I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
-
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
-
My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
-
It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.
-
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-
The key is to accept what is and not allow yourself to be jerked between likes and dislikes, attachments and aversions. Accept what is, right now, whether it’s comfortable or painful.
-
I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.
-
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.
-
It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
