Mike Nichols Quotes

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.

When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

Your wife doesn't want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

My husband came up to Hot Rocks to check up on me, why is still unknown to me because if I was to cheat on him it wouldn't be in a neighborhood bar where he knows I am.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'

In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.