Michael Shannon Quotes

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

Michael Shannon

• Thinking
• Survival
• Humility

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Focus

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • Like
  • Place

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Time
  • Week
  • Doctor

• We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.

  

  Burnie Burns

• I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.

  

  Diplo
  • Crazy
  • Dark

• You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.

  

  Diplo
  • Future
  • Past

• It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • People
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I think it's fascinating that clothes can drastically transform someone's mood or the way they feel about their appearance.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Mood

• I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

  

  James Broughton
  • Writing

• I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • America
  • Cool
  • Car

• I want to soundtrack people's layered feelings.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • People

• When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

  

  Claudio Reyna
  • Game
  • Attention
  • Amazing

• Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life!

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • Life

• My girlfriend has been the ice.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Girlfriend
  • Ice

• The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • King

• Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Night
  • Baby

• Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Thinking
  • Survival
  • Humility