Mike Leigh Quotes

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

Mike Leigh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 20, 1943

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I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

Jim Bakker

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The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Robert Peel

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A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.

Matt Dillon

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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Tommy Lasorda

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People in the U.K. absolutely love my character in 'Downton,' and in equal measure, people absolutely hate him, and that's all I wanted.

Tom Cullen

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What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

Rod Lurie

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You can't learn to be ambitious and driven.

Ron Conway

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I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

Josephine Baker

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Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

Joseph Nye

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I could take a cemetery and make all the tombstones beer companies. There's a lot of craft beers that came and went. A lot of them.

Jon Taffer

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I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Dennis Washington

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Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

Deirdre O'Kane

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