--- title: "17 Knows Quotes By Michael Emerson" description: "17 Knows quotes by Michael Emerson. Plus more from Michael Emerson and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c5/michael-emerson-4622_congregation_absolutely-although-every-congregation-w_995519.jpg" --- > [Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. It's very important, but again these are,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/absolutely-although-every-congregation-will-say-you-know-every/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c5/michael-emerson-4622_congregation_absolutely-although-every-congregation-w_995519.jpg) > [My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/my-mother-always-told-me-growing-up-i-had-a-punchable-face-little-did/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/717/michael-emerson-4622_careers_my-mother-always-told-me-growing-up-i-ha_1938355.jpg) > [It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/it-may-be-changing-but-still-it-s-the-one-place-that-total-control-of/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/michael-emerson-4622_african-american_it-may-be-changing-but-still-it-s-the-on_16244.jpg) > [We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/we-go-where-our-family-goes-we-go-where-our-friends-are-and-because/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18a/michael-emerson-4622_ends_we-go-where-our-family-goes-we-go-where_324391.jpg) > [And again, this connection that you get: I meet Joe at church. Joe's connected to a whole network of people I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/and-again-this-connection-that-you-get-i-meet-joe-at-church-joe-s/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/482/michael-emerson-4622_birthday-party_and-again-this-connection-that-you-get-i_2668028.jpg) > [They could never go back to being a uniracial congregation again. It brings excitement. It brings life. It allows them to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/they-could-never-go-back-to-being-a-uniracial-congregation-again-it/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/michael-emerson-4622_able_they-could-never-go-back-to-being-a-unir_3043067.jpg) > [There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/there-are-three-things-and-it-depends-on-the-group-that-we-re-talking/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51c/michael-emerson-4622_black_there-are-three-things-and-it-depends-on_250487.jpg) > [So there was great clashes when, you know, if you believe you shouldn't remove your shoes and someone's taking their shoes off,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/so-there-was-great-clashes-when-you-know-if-you-believe-you-shouldn-t/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f3/michael-emerson-4622_believe_so-there-was-great-clashes-when-you-know_1366872.jpg) > [So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/so-the-tradition-from-europe-is-that-you-re-supposed-to-emphasize-the/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/968/michael-emerson-4622_average_so-the-tradition-from-europe-is-that-you_1867246.jpg) > [So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/so-we-didn-t-get-the-denominations-and-the-separate-congregations/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e72/michael-emerson-4622_civil-war_so-we-didn-t-get-the-denominations-and-t_1687971.jpg) > [One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/one-of-the-things-we-find-when-we-talk-to-people-that-attend-these/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecf/michael-emerson-4622_bits_one-of-the-things-we-find-when-we-talk-t_1769785.jpg) > [I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/i-may-have-to-shop-with-them-but-on-sunday-i-don-t-want-to-have-to/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/michael-emerson-4622_able_i-may-have-to-shop-with-them-but-on-sund_1512001.jpg) > [We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/we-just-say-there-are-five-you-know-racial-groups-in-the-us-i-say/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdf/michael-emerson-4622_categories_we-just-say-there-are-five-you-know-raci_1014798.jpg) > [It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/it-happens-a-little-bit-more-in-the-west-where-there-s-more-fluid/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49a/michael-emerson-4622_bigger_it-happens-a-little-bit-more-in-the-west_2235418.jpg) > [In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. Others may not always agree with you, but I'm always aware of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/in-your-actor-s-heart-you-know-when-you-re-playing-well-others-may/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/michael-emerson-4622_actors_in-your-actor-s-heart-you-know-when-you_2130460.jpg) > [Once in a while you get people that maybe because of economic reasons, or have a social network, they get attracted. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/once-in-a-while-you-get-people-that-maybe-because-of-economic-reasons/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c06/michael-emerson-4622_african-american_once-in-a-while-you-get-people-that-mayb_2876400.jpg) > [Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/humor-is-so-culturally-based-that-when-i-try-to-tell-a-joke-as-me/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a6/michael-emerson-4622_african-american_humor-is-so-culturally-based-that-when-i_618810.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## More by Michael Emerson > [It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/it-may-be-changing-but-still-it-s-the-one-place-that-total-control-of/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will we worship?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/call-and-response-style-yes-exactly-so-whenever-different-groups-get/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/i-think-people-respond-to-villains-because-people-in-general-are-more/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/so-you-find-a-lot-of-these-sixth-americans-congregate-in-these/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/there-are-roles-that-are-terrifying-because-they-re-large-or-you-may/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/we-do-not-have-an-american-culture-we-have-a-white-american-culture/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/i-think-of-myself-as-a-problem-solver-i-want-to-go-in-and-help-the/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/but-what-we-found-in-the-study-is-that-churches-are-ten-times-less/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [And different traditions stress different - so then there's that. I talked to an African American who says before she goes into an interracial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/and-different-traditions-stress-different-so-then-there-s-that-i/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [I think it's easier, I really do, because of not having that similar history, so that's why I think two-thirds of these mixed congregations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/i-think-it-s-easier-i-really-do-because-of-not-having-that-similar/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/there-are-three-things-and-it-depends-on-the-group-that-we-re-talking/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/i-ask-the-clergy-why-don-t-i-see-myself-represented-in-leadership-and/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, 'Oh, God, all those wasted years!'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/i-was-a-magazine-illustrator-for-many-years-before-i-became-an-actor/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/we-go-where-our-family-goes-we-go-where-our-friends-are-and-because/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) > [This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we're desperate, if we feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/this-is-this-thing-i-harp-on-sometimes-acting-can-be-a-self-defeating/) [Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/michael-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "17 Knows Quotes By Michael Emerson", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. 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Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. 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People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or \"Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?\" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/one-of-the-things-we-find-when-we-talk-to-people-that-attend-these/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecf/michael-emerson-4622_bits_one-of-the-things-we-find-when-we-talk-t_1769785.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecf/michael-emerson-4622_bits_one-of-the-things-we-find-when-we-talk-t_1769785.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecf/michael-emerson-4622_bits_one-of-the-things-we-find-when-we-talk-t_1769785.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost…” — Michael Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down.\" It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/i-may-have-to-shop-with-them-but-on-sunday-i-don-t-want-to-have-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/michael-emerson-4622_able_i-may-have-to-shop-with-them-but-on-sund_1512001.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/michael-emerson-4622_able_i-may-have-to-shop-with-them-but-on-sund_1512001.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/michael-emerson-4622_able_i-may-have-to-shop-with-them-but-on-sund_1512001.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. 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It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/it-happens-a-little-bit-more-in-the-west-where-there-s-more-fluid/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49a/michael-emerson-4622_bigger_it-happens-a-little-bit-more-in-the-west_2235418.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49a/michael-emerson-4622_bigger_it-happens-a-little-bit-more-in-the-west_2235418.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49a/michael-emerson-4622_bigger_it-happens-a-little-bit-more-in-the-west_2235418.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from…” — Michael Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. 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