--- title: "18 People Quotes By Mike Nichols" description: "18 People quotes by Mike Nichols. Plus more from Mike Nichols and more People sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/mike-nichols-6630_comedies_i-have-never-understood-people-dividing_2141345.png" --- > [I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/i-have-never-understood-people-dividing-things-into-dramas-and/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/mike-nichols-6630_comedies_i-have-never-understood-people-dividing_2141345.png) > [People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/people-by-and-large-would-rather-be-talking-than-listening/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/mike-nichols-6630_communication_people-by-and-large-would-rather-be-talk_1893169.png) > [You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/you-want-to-make-money-remake-cinderella-you-want-to-move-people/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/mike-nichols-6630_cinderella_you-want-to-make-money-remake-cinderella_601333.png) > [I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/i-am-drawn-to-the-mystery-of-marriage-you-can-never-know-what-the/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46d/mike-nichols-6630_am_i-am-drawn-to-the-mystery-of-marriage-yo_2341002.png) > [Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/chicago-is-not-a-very-fashion-driven-place-nobody-says-oh-you-ve-got/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/365/mike-nichols-6630_cares_chicago-is-not-a-very-fashion-driven-pla_2939632.png) > [Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/stand-up-comedy-is-a-very-hard-thing-on-the-spirit-there-are-people/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/mike-nichols-6630_benny_stand-up-comedy-is-a-very-hard-thing-on_30078.png) > [The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/the-degree-to-which-you-re-peculiar-and-different-is-the-degree-to/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/177/mike-nichols-6630_danger_the-degree-to-which-you-re-peculiar-and_1145720.png) > [It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/it-s-the-hardest-thing-on-earth-to-like-yourself-and-then-when-you-do/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/135/mike-nichols-6630_catastrophe_it-s-the-hardest-thing-on-earth-to-like_54825.png) > [The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/the-thing-about-being-an-outsider-is-that-it-teaches-you-to-hear-what/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad2/mike-nichols-6630_about_the-thing-about-being-an-outsider-is-tha_2909053.png) > [You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/you-could-say-that-it-s-in-talking-movies-that-inner-life-begins-to/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/036/mike-nichols-6630_appear_you-could-say-that-it-s-in-talking-movie_1966320.png) > [If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/if-you-re-fleeing-nazi-germany-in-1939-and-you-re-a-jew-you-don-t/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/mike-nichols-6630_about_if-you-re-fleeing-nazi-germany-in-1939-a_1527234.png) > [No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/no-doubt-you-are-as-alarmed-as-i-by-the-tragic-decline-in-america-s/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ef/mike-nichols-6630_agreement_no-doubt-you-are-as-alarmed-as-i-by-the_1815123.jpg) > [The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/the-greatest-thrill-is-that-moment-when-a-thousand-people-are-sitting/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86c/mike-nichols-6630_adventure_the-greatest-thrill-is-that-moment-when_2436960.jpg) > [Never let people see what you want, because they will not let you have it. Never let anybody see what you feel,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/never-let-people-see-what-you-want-because-they-will-not-let-you-have/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/534/mike-nichols-6630_anybody_never-let-people-see-what-you-want-becau_2412214.jpg) > [Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/things-come-in-waves-and-i-m-always-more-interested-in-places-like/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/mike-nichols-6630_always_things-come-in-waves-and-i-m-always-more_969496.png) > [I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/i-never-understand-when-people-say-do-you-do-comedy-or-tragedy-i-don/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/mike-nichols-6630_be-true_i-never-understand-when-people-say-do-yo_1523661.jpg) > [There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/there-are-absolutely-almost-perfect-people-who-experience-no-guilt/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/mike-nichols-6630_absolutely_there-are-absolutely-almost-perfect-peop_1248093.png) > [You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/you-can-always-tell-gifted-and-highly-intelligent-people-as-they/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e1/mike-nichols-6630_about_you-can-always-tell-gifted-and-highly-in_2168975.jpg) ## Other authors on People - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 856 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 843 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/rush-limbaugh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 724 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 624 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 488 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 367 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. Bush 298 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/george-w-bush/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 286 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bernie-sanders-17420.jpg) Bernie Sanders 260 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/bernie-sanders/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-c-maxwell-51081.jpg) John C. Maxwell 249 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/john-c-maxwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terry-pratchett-89528.jpg) Terry Pratchett 244 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/terry-pratchett/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-gates-17911.jpg) Bill Gates 223 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/bill-gates/) ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/stand-up-comedy-is-a-very-hard-thing-on-the-spirit-there-are-people/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/it-s-the-hardest-thing-on-earth-to-like-yourself-and-then-when-you-do/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/i-used-to-say-that-winning-the-oscar-means-being-back-at-the-beverly/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) > [I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/i-m-an-enormous-fan-of-the-west-wing-it-was-one-of-the-very-few-shows/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) > [The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/the-only-safe-thing-in-filmmaking-is-to-take-a-chance/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) > [I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/i-don-t-expect-anything-from-reviews-sometimes-i-am-bemused-by-them/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/my-first-memory-in-the-world-is-my-gym-teacher-ripping-my-mother-s/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) > [Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/whether-something-is-a-success-or-not-has-never-had-much-to-do-with/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/the-reason-that-most-british-actors-are-better-than-most-american/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) > [Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/fear-of-comedy-is-all-so-much-about-who-you-do-it-with/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/if-you-lose-a-parent-it-never-goes-away-as-a-kid-i-dreamed-about-my/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) > [Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/nerves-provide-me-with-energy-it-s-when-i-don-t-have-them-when-i-feel/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/technically-maybe-i-learned-most-of-all-from-george-stevens-and-among/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/jewish-introspection-and-jewish-humor-is-a-way-of-surviving-if-you-re/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/streetcar-is-no-longer-about-the-moment-at-all-there-is-no-blanche/) [Mike Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-nichols/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/mike-nichols/#itemlist", "name": "18 People Quotes By Mike Nichols", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mike Nichols" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/i-have-never-understood-people-dividing-things-into-dramas-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/mike-nichols-6630_comedies_i-have-never-understood-people-dividing_2141345.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/mike-nichols-6630_comedies_i-have-never-understood-people-dividing_2141345.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/mike-nichols-6630_comedies_i-have-never-understood-people-dividing_2141345.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,” — Mike Nichols", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mike Nichols" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-nichols/people-by-and-large-would-rather-be-talking-than-listening/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/mike-nichols-6630_communication_people-by-and-large-would-rather-be-talk_1893169.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/mike-nichols-6630_communication_people-by-and-large-would-rather-be-talk_1893169.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/mike-nichols-6630_communication_people-by-and-large-would-rather-be-talk_1893169.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.” — Mike Nichols", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' 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