A Quote by Mike Nichols

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Mike Nichols

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Actors Job Key Love Make Open Place Safe Take Them Vein

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Mike Nichols
German - Director
November 6, 1931 - November 19, 2014

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Mike Nichols

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

John Lasseter

Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.

Red Barber

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

Ellen Hopkins

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

W. P. Kinsella

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

Red Smith

I'm so open to different things. The only thing I'd say is I've set the bar pretty high in terms of good female roles with 'Diary,' and I want to continue in that vein.

Bel Powley

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

Joseph Conrad

You've got two veins; one carries blood directly to the body, one carries blood to the heart. That tumor was growing and was pressing on that vein. That vein was getting skinnier and skinnier.

James Conner

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today.

Wilferd Peterson

I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.

Leonardo DiCaprio

My advice for girls who are waiting for their Prince Charming is to be open for anything. Be open to new experiences, be open to the idea that it may take longer than you want, but if you're open to meeting new people and new adventures, then love will come along.

Lily Collins

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

David Oyelowo

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.