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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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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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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I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.
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To project my mark outside myself – but I did it! walking in the streets of Venice Klein wore a shirt imprinted with the marks of his own hands and feet.. .I found myself confronting everything that was psychological in me. I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood...
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I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
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The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
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Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.
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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.
