"My work requires acting at its most committed……" — Mike Leigh
"My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors."
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27 Quotes by Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh has 27 quotes on this site.
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Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
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Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins,
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I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things…
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There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
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The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to…
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It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
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I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not…
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I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is…
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But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
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But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?
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Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was…
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I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the…
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
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We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation…
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
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You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social…
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I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different…
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
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I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
— Kevin Bacon
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