The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.
Mike NicholsIt's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!
Mike NicholsThat seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
Mike Nichols