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

• 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

• 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 think the word 'progressive' is a very devious term. It was created as a substitute for 'communist.' What they propose is the reverse of progress.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Progress

• This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Projects

• I am sure that some day the Czechs will see that what we did was to save them for a happier future. And I sincerely believe that what we have at last opened the way to that general appeasement which alone can save the world from chaos.

  

  Neville Chamberlain
  • World
  • Believe
  • Future

• I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco

• People looking into Barack Obama's campaign contributions say that Obama may have received $3.3 million from abroad. Yeah. It turns out that broad is Oprah Winfrey.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • May
  • Campaign

• You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Kind

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

  

  Michael Madsen
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