"Yes. The whole point about laughter is it’s……" — Mike Nichols
"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 why it’s funny,"
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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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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 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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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
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