Mike Leigh Quotes
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
Mike Leigh
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Samuel E. Morison
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. King
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Daisy Berkowitz
I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
Salma Hayek
I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
Vincent Cassel
I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi
If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.
A. J. Langer
I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.
Yolanda Adams
I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
Vijender Singh
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
Uma Thurman
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
Nancy Pearcey
I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.
Karl Pilkington
Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.
H. Burke Peterson
To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
Marianne Williamson
I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.
Jasmine Guinness
How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.
Ray Bradbury
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Gary Clark Jr.
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
Mike Leigh
