Life isn't everything Quotes

“TOM STOPPARD: It was the most wrenching bereavement I can ever remember experiencing. I’m not reconciled to it yet. You just want to carry on thinking he’s up there high on the East Side, going into the Met, and going downtown to see a play.”
― Ash Carter, Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of his Closest Friends.

“RICHARD PLEPLER: We’re living in a very, very trying moment. It’s too mean. There’s too much invective, vitriol, too much hatred. The best antidote to that are our artists. They’re our last best hope,”
― Ash Carter, Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of his Closest Friends.

“RICHARD PLEPLER: At the premiere, Diane came up to me and said, “Thank you for giving my husband ‘more life,’” which, of course, was a reference to one of the key lines in the play. As Kushner explains in the notes to Perestroika, “more life” is Harold Bloom’s translation of the Hebrew word for blessing.”
― Ash Carter, Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of his Closest Friends.

“He would always say, “The thing that the audience is constantly asking you is: Why are you telling me this?”
― Ash Carter, Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of his Closest Friends.

“PAUL SIMON: I saw the movie in a screening room with Mike and Joe Levine. Levine was sitting in the front row by himself—this is the first time he’s going to see it—and Mike and I were closer to the back, near the projectionist. The movie finishes, and the lights come up. And there’s a pause. And Levine says, “I smell money, Mike. I smell money.”
― Ash Carter, Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of his Closest Friends.

“The art of being charming is giving away a vital part of yourself which you can absolutely part with.”
― Ash Carter, Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of his Closest Friends.