Michael Shannon Quotes

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

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• As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Never

• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Technology

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Family
  • Order
  • Public

• I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Language
  • Meaningful
  • Sounds

• Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Night
  • Care

• You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • True
  • Think
  • Know

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Years
  • Worked
  • Consistently

• I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Red
  • Just
  • Texas

• Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Actor

• I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Work

• Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• 6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • War
  • Independence

• Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Control
  • Air

• People living deeply have no fear of death.

  

  Anais Nin
  • People
  • Death
  • Fear

• I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Acting