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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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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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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I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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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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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that's a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who knows?
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In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
