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Michael Shannon Quotes

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.

Michael Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Acting Never Able Everybody

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

Jennifer Weiner

Day Job You Quit Hard Get

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

Robert Stigwood

Complicated Anything Beatles Very

Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting.

Painting Song Favorite Everybody

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

Job Someone You Go Know Actor

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

Anand Giridharadas

Time People Start You Election Hear

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

Practice Smiling Teeth Pencil Your

Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that.

Start Feel Doing You Important Want

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

Roberto Benigni

Life Beautiful Money Small More

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Space Moon Think Go Politicians Up

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

Happy Me Remember Go Over See

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

Good Art Perspective Diversity Those

I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Great Football I Am Blood My Own

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