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

• I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• 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

• I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• 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

• From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

  

  Kevin James
  • Up
  • Community
  • Theatre

• I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Remember
  • Sexuality
  • Troubles

• The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Glory
  • Gospel
  • Saved

• My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • World
  • War

• I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Christian
  • Grace
  • Praise

• There are many, many, actors with whom I'd like to share a stage or a set.

  

  Joshua Malina
  • Actors
  • Stage
  • Share

• 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