Michael Shannon Quotes

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• I've never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It's much more than hoping people like…
• Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.
• Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
• Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made…
• When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes…
• It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally…
• Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.
• I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end…
• One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess…
• There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet…
• I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here…
• I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.
• I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
• I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.
• That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
• The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.
• I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without…
• It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people…
• My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly,…
• There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do…

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