My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
Mike Leigh
Related It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show. RACHAEL LEIGH Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of... XAVIER SAMUEL I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the ... LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been... RICHARD DREYFUSS When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England. LESLEY MANVILLE A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn't work like that. The screenwriter ... SUSAN HILL All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exagger... HARVEY KEITEL I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the a... OLIVIER DAHAN I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some ki... ANDREW SCOTT Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility... STEVEN YEUN Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. FRANCES MCDORMAND I loved 'Friday Night Lights' because it was totally committed to every facet of its storyte... MOLLY O'KEEFE I love acting. It is so much more real than life. OSCAR WILDE The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. SUSAN SONTAG Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. JOHN GIELGUD I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being... OSCAR WILDE You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it ... CARL GUSTAV JUNG Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters SENECA Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop JACK NICHOLSON My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Ac... TIFFANI AMBER THIESSEN There are no small parts. Only small actors. MILAN KUNDERA You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself. JACK L. WARNER An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it... HELEN HAYES I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one. BRIGITTE BARDOT The best actors do not let the wheels show. MILAN KUNDERA I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's n... JULIA ROBERTS The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. ETHEL BARRYMORE I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. BETTE MIDLER I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber. EWAN MCGREGOR I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of t... ORSON WELLES Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of thing... THOMAS BETTERTON Originally, I Was A Happy Drunk
EWAN MCGREGOR Nicole - Knickers, as I call her. I would swear, burp and fart in front of her. I'd try and embarras... EWAN MCGREGOR Why am I here? You guys are so fantastic. KATE REID For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration ha... DUSTIN HOFFMAN When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort... ROCKY CARROLL Just let the wardrobe do the acting JACK NICHOLSON On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting OLIVER GOLDSMITH Without acting I cannot breathe. LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. ROSALIND RUSSELL Without acting I cannot breathe. LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry... GLENDA JACKSON The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardles... LEONARDO DICAPRIO Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. ELAINE DUNDY Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater. SHIRLEY KNIGHT Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own. TROY GARITY To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the... ENRICO CARUSO I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the tim... DENIS LEARY The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also ... MARIA MENOUNOS I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wante... CARMEN EJOGO I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It'... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Everyone know is, soul does it or it doesn't exist it really doesn't matter. What does it matter is ... DEYTH BANGER Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I l... MARY ROACH I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to ... PRINCE ROYCE When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or t... DENIS VILLENEUVE With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and... NORMAN JEWISON I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We ... ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Mos... CHRIS HARDWICK All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain... MICHAEL KEATON The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice ve... LARRY MULLEN, JR. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f... BEN MENDELSOHN Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part WILLIAM HAZLITT The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experienc... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than ... BETTE DAVIS A lot of what acting is paying attention. NANCY REAGAN The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anyt... REESE WITHERSPOON Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the ... NORMAN COUSINS If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. THORNTON WILDER I figured if I was going to jail, I didn't want to spend more than six months there... I got so brai... ROBERT BLAKE I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in... ROBERT BLAKE Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience. ROBERT BLAKE We got married to get to know each other and see if we could make it together, ROBERT BLAKE I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic. ROBERT BLAKE I'm going to go out and do a little cowboyin'. You know what that is? Cowboying is getting in a moto... ROBERT BLAKE When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a je... ANDRE SOLTNER With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their... MARLON BRANDO Just Like Heaven, REESE WITHERSPOON This one just had a really nice spiritual message about how important it is to nurture yourself. I t... REESE WITHERSPOON The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. DUSTIN HOFFMAN Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it DUSTIN HOFFMAN I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn't until I joined Weight Watchers that I... JENNY MCCARTHY Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king. JOSEPHINE HULL I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a l... RACHAEL LEIGH An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What i... MARILYN MONROE An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. MARILYN MONROE I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak... LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they ... BETTE DAVIS I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to... LEONARDO DICAPRIO We're actors. We're the opposite of people. TOM STOPPARD At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what som... BOB HOPE I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused ... DREW BARRYMORE My cat speaks sign language with her tail. ROBERT A. M. STERN I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over an... RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
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RACHAEL LEIGH They're not poodles, they're art. RACHAEL LEIGH Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebo... LEIGH BRACKETT It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction w... LEIGH HUNT Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through... LEIGH HUNT They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on... LEIGH BARDUGO You're very welcome," she said, giving my hair a hard tug. "You should be used to being gawked at by... LEIGH BARDUGO The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true. LEIGH BARDUGO The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. LEIGH HUNT If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. LEIGH HUNT Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. LEIGH HUNT The groundwork of all happiness is health. LEIGH HUNT Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. LEIGH HUNT The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. LEIGH HUNT Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; t... LEIGH HUNT Colors are the smiles of nature. LEIGH HUNT Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking throug... LEIGH HUNT Better terrible truths than kind lies. LEIGH BARDUGO Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat... LEIGH BARDUGO He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. Th... LEIGH BARDUGO I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less." "You're a thief, Kaz." "Isn't that... LEIGH BARDUGO We are all someone's monster. LEIGH BARDUGO When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing. LEIGH BARDUGO It's not natural for women to fight." "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is ta... LEIGH BARDUGO No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck. LEIGH BARDUGO Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower,... LEIGH BARDUGO Stolen kisses are always sweetest LEIGH HUNT Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it i... LEIGH HUNT I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize. JULIA LEIGH I am going to be a great actress. VIVIEN LEIGH Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. LEIGH HUNT I've always been mad about cats. VIVIEN LEIGH Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved. VIVIEN LEIGH I'm very good with sunglasses. There are things like... maybe headphones - either they're st... LEIGH LEZARK Stolen kisses are always sweetest. LEIGH HUNT It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or ... LEIGH STEINBERG Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you ha... LEIGH STEINBERG She'd hurt him, but she'd attempted everything in her power to make things right. She'd shown him in... LEIGH BARDUGO Services are the present and future development trend for enterprise software. We've all agreed to s... ANDREW LEIGH China allowed Australia to diversify away from Japan as it hit its slump. ANDREW LEIGH The Australian model - which was a fair degree of liberalization but not the full Chicago school tre... ANDREW LEIGH Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordi... ANDREW LEIGH This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and sh... LEIGH BARDUGO Aleksander," I whispered. A boy's name, given up. Almost forgotten. LEIGH BARDUGO Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. LEIGH BARDUGO Why waste my anger on you when the fault is mine? I should have anticipated another betrayal from yo... LEIGH BARDUGO I've been waiting for you a long time, Alina" He said. "You and I are going to change the world. LEIGH BARDUGO The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your vill... LEIGH BARDUGO Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what's inside you? That's steel. It's brave and ... LEIGH BARDUGO I took a breath. “Your highness—” “Nikolai,” he corrected. “But I’ve also been kn... LEIGH BARDUGO I've seen what you truly are," said the Darkling, "and I've never turned away. I never will. Can he ... LEIGH BARDUGO Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to wo... LEIGH BARDUGO What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men. LEIGH BARDUGO Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea. LEIGH BARDUGO I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine. LEIGH BARDUGO Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.” Nikolai p... LEIGH BARDUGO The less you say, the more weight your words will carry. LEIGH BARDUGO When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable. LEIGH BARDUGO The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my li... LEIGH BARDUGO Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart. LEIGH BARDUGO In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity. LEIGH BARDUGO He leaned against the window, and the gilded frame came into sharp focus. “Do you think it would b... LEIGH BARDUGO And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk. LEIGH BARDUGO Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination. LEIGH BARDUGO At some point, Jesper realized Kaz was gone. "Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered. ... LEIGH BARDUGO Don't let anyone or anything drown out that still small voice that says, "You were made for more. KIRSTIN LEIGH I can’t decide if you’re crazy or stupid.” “I have so many good qualities,” Sturmhond... LEIGH BARDUGO I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularl... JULIA LEIGH Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like... VIVIEN LEIGH Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessl... LEIGH LEZARK You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can... VIVIEN LEIGH I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People wh... VIVIEN LEIGH Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. ... LEIGH BARDUGO Inej turned to go. Kaz seized her hand, keeping it on the railing. He didn't look at her. "Stay", he... LEIGH BARDUGO You were like a stranger, Alina. Beautiful," he said. "Terrible. LEIGH BARDUGO They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that. LEIGH BARDUGO I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even ... LEIGH BARDUGO I'm sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now. LEIGH BARDUGO Love is never worth giving up on. LEIGH FALLON Know what suits you. I would never wear brown, because it just doesn't work with my pale skin an... LEIGH LEZARK By the time I'm through sweeping you off your feet, you will be bursting at the seams, begging me to... T.K. LEIGH She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there wa... LORA LEIGH This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to ... LEIGH FALLON We can always find creative ways to do things. LEIGH STEINBERG Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. LEIGH HUNT Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required read... MITCH LEIGH What do you want then?" The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voic... LEIGH BARDUGO I can hear the change in Kaz's breathing when he looks at you." "You... you can?" "It catc... LEIGH BARDUGO No Mourners. No Funerals. LEIGH BARDUGO Stay,” she panted. Tears leaked from her eyes. “Stay till the end.” “And after,” he ... LEIGH BARDUGO The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive. LEIGH BARDUGO She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would h... LEIGH BARDUGO I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all. LEIGH BARDUGO Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins... LEIGH BARDUGO Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?" "Knife to the throat?" asked... LEIGH BARDUGO English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly a... VIVIEN LEIGH You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent. LEIGH STEINBERG I always had influences musically with punk, and then growing up, I dyed my hair every color. I did ... LEIGH LEZARK No, little brother. No one is stronger. You've cheated death too many times. Greed may do your biddi... LEIGH BARDUGO I roll my eyes. "Well, if I plan on doing anything exciting I promise to give fair warning so just..... LEIGH BARDUGO What are you smiling at?” I whirled, peering into the gloom. The Darkling’s voice se... LEIGH BARDUGO Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in. LEIGH BARDUGO What is she to you anyway?" "Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all... LEIGH BARDUGO Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste. LEIGH BARDUGO I'm the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does. LEIGH BARDUGO Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the same expression. Nina knew that look. It ca... LEIGH BARDUGO Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the pe... LEIGH BARDUGO How many times have you told me you're a monster? So be a monster. Be the thing they all fear when t... LEIGH BARDUGO She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thou... LEIGH BARDUGO Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to ... LEIGH ABRAMS We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the v... LEIGH ABRAMS Our ability to pick up better than 10 percent market share in these new product segments in less tha... LEIGH ABRAMS The manufactured housing industry, exclusive of the FEMA orders, has not yet started to rebound. Yet... LEIGH ABRAMS It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expe... LEIGH ABRAMS Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant ... LEIGH ABRAMS A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from ... LEIGH BARDUGO When evening fell the boy would bring the girl a glass of tea, a slice of lemon cake, an apple bloss... LEIGH BARDUGO A wise warrior learns from her mistakes. LEIGH BARDUGO And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have. LEIGH BARDUGO Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return. LEIGH BARDUGO There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with o... LEIGH HUNT I loved fencing and dancing and elocution. VIVIEN LEIGH It is the clear volume of these cases which is worrying, 1 million incidents a year, and even more c... EDWARD LEIGH The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as ... LEIGH BRACKETT Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately. LEIGH MICHAELS Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they... LEIGH STEINBERG Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look ... LEIGH STEINBERG I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything. VIVIEN LEIGH But the vast amount of the testimony was in regard to the historical conspiracy, the working arrange... LEIGH FOREMAN I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake val... VIVIEN LEIGH Nobody wants to kill this golden goose. I don't like the salary-cap system. There's nothing I like a... LEIGH STEINBERG They are not getting hurt in some frivolous hobby. They are hurt applying themselves to the exact ta... LEIGH STEINBERG Obviously Mark's been a starter since 1995 and is confident of his ability to lead a team. But he lo... LEIGH STEINBERG It is not in your interest to pull one over on the other side and get them to make a bad deal. You w... LEIGH STEINBERG [Let's say you're negotiating with a prospective employer.] What's most important to you? ... A sign... LEIGH STEINBERG The fact that one plane crashed is tragic, and my heart goes out to those who are affected. But auto... LEIGH STEINBERG Without referring to anybody directly, one of the problems with confrontational public negotiating i... LEIGH STEINBERG The details and the process are in their court. But let me say that I am optimistic about the proces... LEIGH STEINBERG He's planning on playing for the Dolphins, LEIGH STEINBERG "In Indiana every basketball team is the most important team to somebody. LEIGH EVANS If we pull the genie out of that bottle, I don't know that it ever comes back. If we get to that unc... LEIGH STEINBERG Be brutal. Be cruel. More lives will be saved in the long run. LEIGH BARDUGO Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it. LEIGH BARDUGO I hope you weren't looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised e... LEIGH BARDUGO Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own ni... LEIGH STEINBERG This is an incremental step, because they are limiting it to short form videos and trivia -- stuff t... PHIL LEIGH The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complic... JANET LEIGH I was in that shower for seven days-70 set-ups. At least Hitchcock made sure that the water was warm... JANET LEIGH In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of re... JANET LEIGH We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arr... LEIGH BARDUGO Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the r... LEIGH BARDUGO The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man. LEIGH STEINBERG Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?" "Guns?" asked Jes... LEIGH BARDUGO In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramati... LEIGH STEINBERG She wouldn't wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn't be rid of. LEIGH BARDUGO I saw the prince when I was in Os Alta,” said Ekaterina. “He’s not bad looking.” “Not... LEIGH BARDUGO I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?" LEIGH BARDUGO When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you thin... MITCH LEIGH The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land. MITCH LEIGH One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, ... VIVIEN LEIGH The cost is minimal compared to the human cost and the enormous investments that these teams make in... LEIGH STEINBERG Far too many small and medium-sized stations are threatening places, with poorly lit, graffiti-cover... EDWARD LEIGH There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a compos... MITCH LEIGH That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly att... JO LEIGH Greed is your god, Kaz." He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my serva... LEIGH BARDUGO David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard... LEIGH BARDUGO If it works, it will be plenty dramatic. And I suppose that if it doesn't work, it will be even more... LEIGH BARDUGO Everyone okay?" Mal asked. "Never better," said Genya shakily. David raised hi... LEIGH BARDUGO You cannot make this kind of decision," he said. "Go off with someone you barely know. You're sevent... LEIGH BARDUGO Sure we do," said Theo, swatting at a branch. "We get to the spring, Alia gets cured. We argue over ... LEIGH BARDUGO That one city is absolutely incredible in terms of the voracious nature of their appetite for anythi... LEIGH STEINBERG o each his Dulcinea, that he alone can name...to each a secret hiding place where he can find the ha... MITCH LEIGH Budget Billing is the easiest, simplest way for customers to better handle their utility bills. They... LEIGH MORRIS like some exhibit in a science museum, preserved the same forever? CHYLER LEIGH I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter i... JULIA LEIGH I don't like to do much with my hair - which is good, because I don't know how! I just alway... CHYLER LEIGH The Darkling just stared out into the waves. I considered shoving him over the railing. Sure, he was... LEIGH BARDUGO Romantic heroes and heroines are a bit different from the sort of people we run into every day. LEIGH MICHAELS He does kiss like a pirate though, I was able to re-affirm that. LORA LEIGH People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care abou... VIVIEN LEIGH I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a l... RACHAEL LEIGH If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show. RACHAEL LEIGH