Mike Nichols Quotes

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.

Mike Nichols

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: November 6, 1931 - November 19, 2014

Topics

ExperiencePeopleFeelGuiltPerfect

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Jim Morrison

PeopleGenerationDivorceNewWant

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John F. Kennedy

LifeCourageMomentTragedyTriumph

There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

John Garfield

LifeGoodTruthTogetherTruth Is

Women tear each other apart.

Megan Fox

WomenOtherApartEachTear

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Matthew Vaughn

PowerMoneyCrimeLinked

I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.

Angela Kinsey

HeartPlaceSpecialWorkingPull

In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon landing was right up there with the Mets in the World Series. So it made a, a big impression on me as a little kid.

Michael J. Massimino

New YorkMeMoonWinningWorldNew

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur.

Simon Schama

FatherTimeChildFlowersMeSpeech

From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.

Robert Dallek

JanuaryMomentActionProblemSettle

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Robert Wilson

BurnSayStageCallDecoration

I think we shouldn't be shy of thinking that we can interpret text like a movie again, depending on the point of view and what we do with it more than anything else. Of course a lot of remakes of important films, particularly of horror films, they suck.

Luca Guadagnino

ThinkThinkingViewPoint Of View

I've never thought about it in training, 'If I do this, then maybe I can be on the SPOTY shortlist.'

Lizzie Armitstead

TrainingThoughtI CanNeverMaybe

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