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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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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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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I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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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.
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I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.
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I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.
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I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
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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.
