Michael Madsen Quotes

I don't think I'm predominantly thought of as being a comedic actor.

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Nature

• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Money
  • Done
  • True

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • Help
  • Dying

• The future is never written...only penciled in.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Future

• The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Family

• I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Art
  • Beginning

• My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Great
  • Real

• I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

  

  Donald Byrd
  • School
  • Band
  • Waiting

• In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

  

  Amity Gaige

• I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Winning

• I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • People
  • Bad
  • Fake

• Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

  

  Billy Connolly

• I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Player

• While we have no reason to expect that our position in the universe is special in every way, we would be equally misled were we to assume that it could not be special in any way.

  

  John D. Barrow
  • Universe

• I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Trying
  • Valued

• And I started it all. I threw the home-run ball.

  

  Bob Shaw
  • Home
  • Ball

• They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Voices

• My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stop

• We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Capable

• I don't think I'm predominantly thought of as being a comedic actor.

  

  Michael Madsen
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