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.

Michael Shannon

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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.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Definitely

• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friend
  • Radio
  • Plays

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Like
  • Embrace
  • Graffiti

• Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.

  

  Zak Orth
  • Born
  • Name
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Work
  • Important
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Me
  • Sound

• I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • More
  • Certainly
  • Mail

• 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.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Home
  • Welcome
  • Page

• 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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • You
  • Missing
  • Everything

• I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Person
  • Values
  • Ideological

• I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.

  

  Betty White
  • Romantic
  • Sexy

• Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • People
  • Control

• I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Abuse

• As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration's position on foreign policy matters, but the fact remains: the Executive Branch is tasked with handling diplomatic matters.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • May

• I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Career

• There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Success
  • Band
  • Rock

• I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so.

  

  Andrea Mackris
  • Book

• I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Important
  • Rock
  • Personality

• 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.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Running
  • Crazy