"Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough."

“Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.”

Source : Gene Sarazen (1950). “Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen”

“Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.”

“It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.”

“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”

“Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.”

“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”

“But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?”

Source : "The Auteur, The Voyeur: Mike Leigh Talks". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

“Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.”