Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week. — Mike Nichols Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next. — Mike Nichols Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. — Mike Nichols Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
'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 Copy Share
