Michael Shanks Quotes

Canada, Actor
December 15, 1970

Michael Garrett Shanks is a Canadian actor, writer and director. He is known for playing Dr. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian–American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and as Dr. Charles Harris on the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope.

Also known as Writer, Director

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

Michael Shanks
- Comedy
- Grain
I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.

Michael Shanks
- Character
- Ideas
- Wanted

Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.

Michael Shanks
I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

Michael Shanks
- Thinking
- Feelings
- Should
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

Michael Shanks
- Science
- Goals
- Actors
Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Michael Shanks
- People
- Way
- Tearing
My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

Michael Shanks
- Brother
- Comic
- Boxes
It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

Michael Shanks

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Michael Shanks
I find directing more satisfying.

Michael Shanks
- Directing
- Satisfying