Mike White famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
-- Mike White

#Hate #Love You #Flower
I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change
-- Mike White

#Change #Thinking #People
I used to have a road-rage issue.
-- Mike White

#Issues #Rage #Used
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.
-- Mike White

#People #Want #Easy
To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.
-- Mike White

#Voice #Giving #Bully
I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.
-- Mike White

#Nice #Annoying #Feels
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.
-- Mike White

#Smart #Writing #People
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
-- Mike White

#Character #Compassion #Trying
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.
-- Mike White

#Writing #Trying #Stuff
As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.
-- Mike White

#Directors
Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.
-- Mike White

#Girl #Thinking #Awards
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
-- Mike White

#Believe #Self #People
I do idiosyncratic dramedies.
-- Mike White
I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.
-- Mike White

#Giving #Scripts #Needs
I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.
-- Mike White

#People #Shoulders #Feels
I feel like I know how to write plot.
-- Mike White

#Writing #Plot #Feels
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
-- Mike White

#Religious #Rocks #Rock Music
I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.
-- Mike White

#Buddhist #Yoga #Book
As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.
-- Mike White

#Nice #People #Challenges
You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.
-- Mike White

#Reality #Years #Television
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.
-- Mike White

#Character #Reality #Emotional
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.
-- Mike White

#Writing #Pages #Sometimes
From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.
-- Mike White

#Stressful
I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.
-- Mike White

#Art #School #Thinking
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.
-- Mike White

#Thinking #Culture #Existentialism
There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.
-- Mike White

#Letting Go #Expectations #Victory
There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.
-- Mike White

#Life Lesson #Reality #Television
To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.
-- Mike White

#Buddhist #Men #Feet
My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.
-- Mike White

#Whole Life

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