Michael C. Hall Quotes

As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

Michael C. Hall

• Acting
• Fundamentals
• Passes

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

Michael C. Hall

• Thinking
• Homosexual
• Loathing

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

Michael C. Hall

• Surface
• Hidden
• Beneath

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

Michael C. Hall

• Breakfast
• Southern
• Mannered

Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he saw them, he accepted them, that Dexter is good and that he is worthy of love. And I think that's what enables him to focus his energies in this unique way.

Michael C. Hall

• Father
• Focus
• Accepted

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

Michael C. Hall

• Children
• Broken
• Tragedy

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

Michael C. Hall

• Stage
• Really
• Back

Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer.

Michael C. Hall

• Thinking
• Family
• Members

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

Michael C. Hall

• Acting
• Careers
• Moved

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

Michael C. Hall

• Stage
• Dramatic
• Screens

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

Michael C. Hall

• Interesting
• Roles
• Convince

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Michael C. Hall

• People
• Done
• Knows