Michael Shannon Quotes
I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.
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There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.
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I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order.
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My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.
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At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
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I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.
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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
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Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.
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'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
