Michael Madsen Quotes

You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.

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• The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Society
  • Color
  • Daily

• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kind
  • Street

• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Law
  • Agenda

• Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Love
  • Positive
  • Love Is

• I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Good
  • Like
  • Expect

• Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Qualities

• What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Needs
  • Hood

• This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Future
  • Beautiful

• I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Same

• I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Love
  • History
  • Holiday

• Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Makeup
  • Saws

• If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Role

• It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Feeling
  • Situation
  • Catalyst

• We'll kind of study the film, ... but I think he's got a lot of poise in there. I think he carries himself well. I think he's an accurate passer, but we're still getting to know him.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Study
  • Poise
  • Passer

• We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • City

• We all take Mother's Day seriously and then it's like a month later, a bunch of kids get together and say, "I guess we should do this for the old man, too." Father Day's is weird. It's like celebrating Darth Vader's birthday. It's odd I think. Even the gifts we give dads. Like neckties, which are just like a silk noose. Or books. Would you ever want someone from another generation to give you a book?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Kids

• I said and stand by it. I said that race was a part, and there was a part, that alt-right part, that was a part of the whitelash. And if you listened to the whole quote, you would agree with what I said.

  

  Van Jones
  • Said
  • Race
  • Agree

• Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.

  

  John Murray
  • Hope
  • Education
  • Productive

• I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Value

• I find the more you analyze, the less you really know.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Knows

• You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.

  

  Michael Madsen
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  • Matter