The reason that most British actors are better tha... -Mike Nichols

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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I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define....
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 movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a film on the basis of, 'Is ...
As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could e...
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The only safe thing is to take a chance....
A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't....
I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine....
I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dr...

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I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launc...
More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidate...
We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already been an astronaut for a decade when t...
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't ...
People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has ...
When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work....
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans....
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is...
The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At heart, it is just a simple story about a guy trying...
I've had a lot of experience with not allowing myself to experience certain emotions, like anger and confidence, and with acting you're in this space ...