Michael Shannon Quotes

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

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• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Man
  • Daughter

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • People
  • Always
  • Labels

• People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • America
  • Hate

• I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Song
  • Ugly

• As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • May
  • Day

• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Bad
  • Reality

• I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won't quit until they do it.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People

• A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Caring

• I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • People
  • Up
  • Enemy

• The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

  

  Jane Mayer
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

  

  Angela Braly
  • People
  • Health
  • Competition

• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Stupid
  • Young
  • Silly

• So when you say it's gonna happen now.Well when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long. And all my hope is gone!

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Long
  • Hope

• When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about 'Backstage,' and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of 'The Sound of Music,' and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Music
  • School
  • Job

• The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • She
  • Earth
  • Sun

• I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Familiar