Never Quotes by Mike Nichols

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…

— Mike Nichols

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…

— Mike Nichols

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…

— Mike Nichols

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

— Mike Nichols

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

— Mike Nichols

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

— Mike Nichols

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…

— Mike Nichols

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

— Mike Nichols

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…

— Mike Nichols

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

— Mike Nichols

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

— Mike Nichols

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

— Mike Nichols

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

— Mike Nichols

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

— Mike Nichols

'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…

— Mike Nichols