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Mike Nichols Quotes & Sayings

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There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw. — Mike Nichols

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine. — Mike Nichols

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. — Mike Nichols

The unconscious is our best collaborator. — Mike Nichols

Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character. — Mike Nichols

Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares. — Mike Nichols

The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance. — Mike Nichols

Nerves provide me with energy ... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried. — Mike Nichols

Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now. — Mike Nichols

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it. — Mike Nichols

Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next. — Mike Nichols

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me. — Mike Nichols

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week. — Mike Nichols

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies, — Mike Nichols

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally. — Andrea Martin

I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them. — Mike Nichols

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define. — Mike Nichols

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition. — Mike Nichols

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea. — Mike Nichols

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on. — Mike Nichols

Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation. — Jack O'Brien

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell. — Mike Nichols

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though. — Mike Nichols

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort. — Mike Nichols

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth. — Mike Nichols

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein. — Mike Nichols

'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me. — Mike Nichols

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth. — Mike Nichols

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can. — Mike Nichols

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't. — Mike Nichols

I spend my money...I don't know on what. — Mike Nichols

I was just trying to make a nice little movie ... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable. — Mike Nichols

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world. — Mike Nichols

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them. — Mike Nichols

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian. — Mike Nichols

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love. — Mike Nichols

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it. — Mike Nichols

Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with. — Mike Nichols

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one. — Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship. — Carrie Fisher

People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening. — Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists. — Mike Nichols

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes. — Mike Nichols

I'm anything but confident. — Mike Nichols

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week. — Mike Nichols

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when. — Mike Nichols

Any good movie is filled with secrets. — Mike Nichols

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.' — Mike Nichols

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was. — Mike Nichols