"It's the hardest thing on earth to like……" — 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 like themselves - I don't want to see them!"
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39 Quotes by Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols has 39 quotes on this site.
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In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the…
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Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get…
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Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens…
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Yes. The whole point about laughter is it’s like mercury: you can’t catch it, you can’t catch what motivates it—that’s…
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All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology…
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Any good movie is filled with secrets.
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The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence…
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The unconscious is our best collaborator.
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Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying…
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There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
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The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.
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There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.
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More Catastrophe Quotes
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
— Theodor Adorno
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Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all…
— Tony Campolo
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them.…
— Noam Chomsky
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Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
— Noam Chomsky
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe…
— Leonard Cohen
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As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to…
— Eric Alterman
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
— Jean Anouilh
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
— John Playfair
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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