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I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'
— Mike Nichols
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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
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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
Tags: next, feel, people, experience
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.
— Mike Nichols
Tags: father, world, mother, teacher
Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
— Mike Nichols
Tags: like, dead, person, jealous
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
Tags: reward, doing, you, work
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