Michael Shannon Quotes

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

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• There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Picture
  • Thought
  • End

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Experience
  • City
  • New York

• The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Done
  • Age

• My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Know
  • Hair

• Most men of business think 'Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.'

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Good

• My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

  

  Phillip Lim
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• I want to become a very good writer.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Good

• The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

  

  Draymond Green

• It's not hard for me to be funny. But it's really hard. I don't think a lot of people are funny. I meet a lot of people, and most of them aren't funny.

  

  Amy Schumer
  • People
  • Funny

• I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • Up
  • Movie

• I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.

  

  Jane Green
  • Friends

• There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

  

  Lee Hazlewood
  • Black
  • Church

• I am a vegetarian. I don't want to have anything injected into me that I can't eat. I am a real health nut. I look after myself well.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Real
  • Health

• I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Writing

• The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • True
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

  

  Mabel Elsworth Todd
  • Life
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Real
  • Everyday