Top 100 Nichols Quotes
#1. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
Richard Lewis
#2. Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.
Carrie Fisher
#3. Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
Christine Baranski
#4. When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'
Bob Newhart
#5. Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.
Andrea Martin
#6. Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.
Jack O'Brien
#7. Most of the time for movies and stuff, with the exception of Jeff Nichols, who I've worked with a few times, you just don't know people too well. Everyone is cordial and nice and some people are very genuinely friendly, but once the movie is over you never see them again.
Michael Shannon
#8. My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.
George Weinberg
#9. What is this, the Spanish Inquisition or something?" [Drew Nichols]
"Yeah, and you didn't expect it, did you? [John Bell]
Shawn Goodwin
#10. But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
Patrick Marber
#11. Does one fight when one knows she can't win? Does one protest when she knows it falls on deaf ears? Does one pray for escape, even if death is the most viable alternative? ~ Claire Nichols Rawlings
Aleatha Romig
#12. I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound guy, I'll take it. Filmmaking is a collaborative effort, whether it's a first-time director or it's Mike Nichols. I think that's the standard that the great ones set.
Patrick Wilson
#13. For three days, Shandy Gamble had been lying on his back in the Perigord House awaiting the stranger in the black mustache. Nichols, his name was, and if they were ever going to start cattle buying they had better be moving. The season was already late.
Louis L'Amour
#14. I'm more than a kiss on you worst day, I'm a kiss on your best." - Dr. Jeremy Nichols, Merger Complete
Heather M. Miles
#15. It's truly weird how everyone just thinks they can bring me Diet Coke and everything will be okay. Especially since it's pretty much true.-Lizzie Nichols
Meg Cabot
#16. I saw Nichelle Nichols in 'Truck Turner,' and she was so good.
Kym Whitley
#17. When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
Saffron Burrows
#18. Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.
David Talbot
#19. The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.
Peter Gizzi
#20. Grady Nichols is the awesome new sax player for the millennium.
Jeff Lorber
#21. I challenged that assumption by returning to a full, productive life. I had behaved, Nichols said, "as if death was an option".
Lance Armstrong
#22. I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
Illeana Douglas
#23. And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
Carol Kane
#24. Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.
Sara Blakely
#25. No, that I love you. I love you, Isabel Marie Nichols, and I have since the first day I watched your golden blonde hair dance in the sunlight. That day, you became mine.
A.M. Willard
#26. My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.
Rachel Nichols
#27. I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.
Joe Nichols
#30. It's always a pleasure to perform for people who love country music. And Australians definitely fall into that category. Each time I go back, I learn something new about the country, and I get to see some of the most beautiful places on the planet.
Joe Nichols
#31. The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.
Joe Nichols
#32. I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message. We all need encouragement and something to believe in.
Joe Nichols
#33. I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
Rachel Nichols
#34. I wanted to forget you, too," Sage said morosely. "Even now, I still do. With you right here in front of me. Even after last night. It still hurts to think about when you left. How it felt to be so alone. How much I don't want to care about you anymore.
Sibylla Matilde
#35. Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.
Joe Nichols
#36. I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
Rachel Nichols
#37. Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.
Joe Nichols
#38. I can't wait to use a BabyBjoern. I'm in love with the Orbit Baby stroller, and I also really like the Bugaboo.
Marisol Nichols
#39. 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.
Mike Nichols
#40. If you choose the latter, understand that you may be giving up the man and life God intended for
Nikita Lynnette Nichols
#41. The risks are 'How country can you go?' rather than 'How rock can you take it?'
Joe Nichols
#43. If you deal with every customer in the same way, you will only close 25 to 30 percent of your contacts, because you will only close one personality type. But if you learn how to effectively work with all four personality types, you can conceivably close 100 percent of your contacts.
Rod Nichols
#44. A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things ... they are rooted to the role of the man.
Vincent Nichols
#45. 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.
Mike Nichols
#46. If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.
Bobby Nichols
#47. neuroscience confirms that storytelling has unique power to change opinions and behavior.
Wallace J. Nichols
#48. I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
Rachel Nichols
#49. Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.
Joe Nichols
#50. The thing about being an outsider ... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.
Mike Nichols
#51. I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.
Joe Nichols
#52. I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'
Joe Nichols
#53. It's no use just winning, we've got to win well.
Bill Nichols
#54. Who cares if your outfit is black and you're sporting a brown belt? Wear it, rock it, love it - and others will, too. Nothing beats a belt.
Rachel Nichols
#55. All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.
Nichelle Nichols
#56. I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.
Mike Nichols
#57. We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.
Kid Nichols
#58. Just so you know, I'm strictly a taco girl. I have tried sausage, but it's not for me." ~ Jolie
Emma Nichols
#59. Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.
Marisol Nichols
#60. Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done ... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
Rachel Nichols
#61. I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.
Mike Nichols
#62. When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?
Mike Nichols
#63. I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
Rachel Nichols
#64. The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.
Mike Nichols
#65. I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.
Joe Nichols
#66. There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
Rachel Nichols
#67. Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.
Beverley Nichols
#68. I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
Joe Nichols
#69. I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
Rachel Nichols
#71. I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.
Rachel Nichols
#72. All we have are our words and our actions. They are what define us. And one without the other is no good. You need to utilize both to make true change. Within yourself. Internally and externally.
Noah Nichols
#73. The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.
Vincent Nichols
#74. Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road ... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.
Mike Nichols
#75. My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it.
Judy Nichols
#76. Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.
Lee Nichols
#77. 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.
Mike Nichols
#78. Since I've become more observant of how bikes and cars interact, I've decided that bicyclists have two major safety threats: cars and themselves.
Lee Nichols
#79. It'd be a shame for that beautiful naked body to go to waste, he murmured as he walked over to me and dropped his boxers.
Emma Nichols
#80. By the way, the best place to find names for fictional characters, if you are ever foolish enough to write a novel, is in a Bradshaw or an ABC. All the nicest people always sound like railway stations.
Beverley Nichols
#81. When it comes to the college essay, feel free to break some rules. Many still apply, of course: you need to watch your grammar and spell everything correctly. Sentence structure still matters. But the formula that got you A's in English can be a straitjacket when you're writing your college essay.
Cassie Nichols
#82. The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.
Mike Nichols
#83. I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
Rachel Nichols
#84. I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.
Rachel Nichols
#85. Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.
Mike Nichols
#86. It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren't true. All things are knowable and every opinion on any subject is as good as any other.
Tom Nichols
#87. I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.
Mike Nichols
#88. There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.
Mike Nichols
#89. I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
Rachel Nichols
#90. ...most people unconsciously dream themselves out of their goals. They dream so far past their current reality - or what's currently possible - that they end up abandoning their goals and damaging their own self-esteem.
Lisa Nichols
#91. Charlie X)? Those were the hints, as far as I'm concerned.
Nichelle Nichols
#92. I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,
Mike Nichols
#93. It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.
Rachel Nichols
#94. The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.
Caroline M. Nichols Churchill
#95. I want to see the sunrise with you. I want to watch the sunset. I want to make out during a movie. Silly, huh?
Emma Nichols
#96. There's nowhere more important for me to be," he said as he gently tugged my head back by my hair. "I would go anywhere, everywhere, just to be with you.
Emma Nichols
#97. I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.
Mike Nichols
#98. I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and all Fellini movies and like everybody else I loved John Ford. Then and now, I loved Preston Sturges, maybe above anyone.
Mike Nichols
#99. Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.
Mike Nichols
