Michael Shannon Quotes

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

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• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• 3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • You
  • Focus
  • Things

• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Focus

• There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fate
  • Thing
  • Accident

• I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Wall
  • New York

• It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Great
  • Government

• I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Media

• I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Country
  • House
  • Everything

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Truth
  • High
  • Judge

• My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Man
  • Me
  • Feet

• Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Best

• My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Mom
  • Passionate
  • Taught

• I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Morning

• In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Black
  • Know
  • Paris

• A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

  

  Quintilian
  • Laugh
  • Too Much
  • Costs

• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Realize

• I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Remember
  • Culture

• Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

  

  Wayne White
  • Beauty
  • Create
  • Artists

• Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • Acting
  • Telling

• I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Acting
  • Bedroom
  • Posters