"The only safe thing is to take a……" — Mike Nichols
"The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything."
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39 Quotes by Mike Nichols
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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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It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the…
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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 Bold Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe…
— Michele Bachmann
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
— Francis Bacon
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In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.
— Bob Beauprez
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
— Mayim Bialik
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
— Aeschylus
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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
— Cate Blanchett
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
— Mary J. Blige
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't…
— Alan Alda
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