List of Mike Nichols Quotes

It's Not A Filmmaker's Job To Explain His Technique But To Tell His Story The Best Way He Can.

Jewish Introspection And Jewish Humor Is A Way Of Surviving . . . If You're Not Handsome And You're Not Athletic And You're Not Rich, There's Still One Last Hope With Girls, Which Is Being Funny.

Nerves Provide Me With Energy... It's When I Don't Have Them, When I Feel At Ease, That's When I Get Worried.

It's The Hardest Thing On Earth To Like Yourself, And Then When You Do, It's A Catastrophe. I Mean, The People I Know Who Like Themselves - I Don't Want To See Them!

All The Theories That Acting Is Reacting To Imaginary Circumstances As Though They Are Real, And Directing Is Turning Psychology Into Behavior, Those Are All Stabs At Something That Can't Be Taught. All The Great Actors Can't Talk About What They Do, And They Don't Want To Begin To Talk About It. They Just Do It.

Will We Allow The Decline Of Our Language-the Language Of Shakespeare, Shaw And Steinbeck? Will We Abuse Our Precious Gift Of Communication? Will We Bite Our Mother Tongue With The Teeth Of Indifference, Crushing The Taste Buds Of Clarity And, Without Prompt Application Of The Antiseptic Of Education, Causing The Gangrene Of Strained Metaphors? Stand Up, America, And Let Me Hear Your Answer: Ain't No Way, Dude!

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.

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.

If You Want To Be A Legend, God Help You, It's So Easy. You Just Do One Thing. You Can Be The Master Of Suspense, Say. But If You Want To Be As Invisible As Is Practical, Then It's Fun To Do A Lot Of Different Things.

Being With An Insanely Jealous Person Is Like Being In The Room With A Dead Mammoth.

That Seems To Me The Greatest American Danger We're All In, That We'll Bargain Away The Experience Of Being Alive For The Appearance Of It.

I Came To Love Silence, Because It's So Rare, And It's Now My Favorite Aural Condition.