Mike Leigh Quotes
I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.
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The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
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It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.
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I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
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The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines
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I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
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Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.
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Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!
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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.
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I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
