Mike Nichols Quotes

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things that they aren't saying. It's a way to explore scenes. Sometimes it's more useful than others, but it's always there to see if there's anything that you might improve.

Mike Nichols

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TogetherSayingYouFindSometimes

I have great technique, a good shot, and I'm pretty good in the air.

Mauro Icardi

GoodGreatAirPrettyShot

Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.'

Michael Connelly

TimeChildhoodThinkI ThinkVisit

I just found the piano so fascinating and wonderful, and I begged my parents to buy me one. In the end, they bought me a toy piano and eventually an upright piano, and I started lessons.

Stephen Hough

ParentsMeEndBuyWonderfulPiano

Wellness is associated with happiness. When you're happy, you're feeling good in your mind and body. That ties into being healthy, eating well, and exercising regularly. It also ties into being excited about things - like getting up in the morning and having a healthy breakfast.

Stella Maxwell

GoodHappinessMorningHappyMind

As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.

Trombone Shorty

MusicListeningSometimesBoredGet

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

Ronda Rousey

PersonalityThinkYouPersonSkin

I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven't even seen the Monty Python musical, and I'm a huge Monty Python fan.

Matt Besser

SometimesSeenLikeFanEvenPython

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

Claudio Hummes

ChurchSolidarityPoorServantMust

Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the time, but have never made it out of their boxes.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

GoodTimeThinkOthersNeverNeed

Why aren't we talking about Hillary Clinton getting debate questions ahead of time? That's a pretty valid attempt to influence an election. Somebody giving her the debate questions and the answers of an election.

Sean Spicer

TimeInfluenceQuestionsTalkingWhy

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Thomas Merton

PeopleMeUniverseBodyMy OwnOwn

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

Richard Dawkins

GoodDoctorMedicineThinkYouJust

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