Michael Shannon Quotes

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Thought

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I've never been on a date.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Never
  • Been
  • Date

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Black
  • Know
  • Literature

• The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Made
  • Natural

• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

  

  Washed Out
  • Job
  • Like

• All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• People want you to fail.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Speech

• All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Family
  • Water
  • Gypsies

• Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.

  

  Haifaa al-Mansour
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

  

  Lyman Beecher
  • Death
  • Alone

• Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

  

  Michael Shannon
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