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 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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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
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I was taught by a lot of great comedy writers to go for the reality in a role, and the comedy will come through.
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When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
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How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
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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.
