Michael Shannon Quotes

I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.

Michael Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1974

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How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

Joe Jackson

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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

Ang Lee

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I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

John Polkinghorne

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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Amber Tamblyn

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I was seen as a traitor for marrying a Muslim - a Pakistani at that.

Amitava Kumar

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From my perspective, if I say that I'm done, I would hope - and I trust - that my corner would throw in the towel for me.

Rose Namajunas

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I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

Michael Moore

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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Louise Brooks

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Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

Jay McInerney

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You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings.

Jordan Peterson

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'Goldenheart' is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It's a new version of these battles - age-old stories for the now.

Dawn Richard

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In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

Chris Terrio

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