Michael Madsen Quotes
My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
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Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.
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It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.
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It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.
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There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.
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One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
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Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.
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The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.
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There seems to be a pattern. I get one good script every two years.
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It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
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My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.
