Michael Shannon Quotes
I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.
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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.
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Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.
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I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things.
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There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'
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I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.
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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.
