Michael Eklund Quotes

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

Michael Eklund

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 31, 1962

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Entertainment is often a medium in which you can put yourself front and center.

John Cena

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If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

Andrew Cuomo

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I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

Andy Serkis

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Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.

Michael Douglas

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I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood.

Spike Jonze

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I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

Stan Wawrinka

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During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson.

Robert Dallek

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A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

Robert Carlyle

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I'm a person who really doesn't dwell on the past.

Ronnie Lott

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The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

Martin Parr

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I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

Roy Blount, Jr.

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Michelangelo

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