Life Quote by Mike Nichols

““How beautiful black-and-white is. It's not literal. It's a metaphor automatically, already saying, this is not life, it's ABOUT life.””

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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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Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

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“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.”

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The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

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