Mike Nichols Quotes
I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
Quotes to Explore
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I like to work.
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It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.
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Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
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If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.
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The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.
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To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.
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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
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Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.
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You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister.
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No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.
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Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
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I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
