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.

Mike Nichols

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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.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• I like to work.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Work
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• 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.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Thinking
  • Dog
  • Innocent

• Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Artist
  • Certain

• When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Great
  • Greatness
  • Ayrton Senna

• 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.

  

  Yasser Arafat

• The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Christ
  • Doctrine

• To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Issues

• I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Long
  • Door
  • Figure

• I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Dangerous
  • Directors

• 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.]

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Women
  • Children
  • Friends

• I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Things
  • Fool
  • Consequence

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • Protect

• To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Pain
  • Consciousness

• 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.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • God
  • Faith

• You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Trying
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Public
  • Realize
  • Profession

• There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

  

  George Clooney
  • God
  • Reality
  • Film

• Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that. I applaud other actors who do that and I am not ripping on them, but to me, that's a badge of honor if you're fighting this disease.

  

  Monica Potter
  • Feels
  • Honor
  • Actors

• 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.

  

  Mike Nichols
  • Actors
  • Keys
  • Veins