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.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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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.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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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.'
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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.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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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.
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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.
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I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.
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I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.
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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.
