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" 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
Talk
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Early
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" My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was that he died before he could see that he would be proud of me. I was actually more what he wished for than he thought. "
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" Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried. "
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" Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth. "
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" I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on. "
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" Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.' "
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" I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them. "
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" The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day. "
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End
" I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition. "
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Because
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Rare
" Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now. "
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Past
Now
Most
" There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love. "
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Better
You
" Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares. "
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Nobody
People
" Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though. "
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Comedy
" My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends. "
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Memory
World
Teacher
" A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't. "
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Either
Like
You
" Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian. "
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Wants
Known
Everybody
" Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them. "
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Limitations
Lead
Mind
" I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world. "
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Know
Free
Film
" 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! "
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Know
Want
Yourself
" I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.' "
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Desire
Two
Salesman
" It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that. "
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Doing
Reward
Work
" The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life. "
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Looking
People
Moment
" 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. "
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Point
You
" 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. "
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Together
Find
Saying
" Here's the most mysterious thing to me. I look back at those first plays I did and the first movies I did, and I only have one question, which is, 'What was I so confident about? Where did I get that? "
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Here
Me
Confident
" 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. "
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Fun
Easy
You
" Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not galloping past your window on the way to the latest anything. They're living their lives. You do a play, they come and see it and say, 'That's nice', and then they go home. "
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Fashion
People
Home
" I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry voting. It doesn't come from God. It doesn't change your life, really. "
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Life
Say
Winning
" Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking. "
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Movies
Place
Most
" As a director, my job is, and always has been, divided into a number of things: dealing with the crew, the money and the studio, and the marketing and publicity. These are all different jobs that have to be learned and done as well as possible. The celebrity part rarely touches a director. "
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