Actor Quotes by Mike Nichols

8 Actor quotes by Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols brings a seasoned eye to the craft, and this handful of eight lines captures his sharp, often witty take on performance. It’s a brief but pointed look at how he views the actor’s role on stage and screen.

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The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money.…

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Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.

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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…

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Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.

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It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to…

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All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior,…

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A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It…

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Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK,…

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Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in…

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It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who…

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I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry…

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I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

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The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

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I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them.

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My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and…

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Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.

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The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the…

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Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.

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If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years.…

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Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.

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Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.'…

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Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not…

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'Streetcar' is no longer about the moment at all. There is no Blanche DuBois anywhere; south, north, east or west. We don't have Blanche…

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