Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though. Mike Nichols brutalcomedypowerful Change image and share on social
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. Mike Nichols accountactoramerican share on social
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? Mike Nichols backconfidentmovie Change image and share on social
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. Mike Nichols actualavoidbenny share on social
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now. Mike Nichols applicationgreatgrip Change image and share on social
American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast. Mike Nichols americanbreakfastbrother share on social
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. Mike Nichols crazydiefather share on social
If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance. Mike Nichols divorcefleegermany Change image and share on social
The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity? Mike Nichols dangerdefensedegree share on social