Quotes by Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

A lot of times people will send me stuff. They will find something and they will send it to me and then I will take a look at it. Every once in awhile I will go on IMDB for 10 or 15 minutes and look around. But I am not a huge gearhead. I don’t even have my own computer. I use my girlfriends.

Girlfriend

Looks

People

A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don’t have best friends or best buddies.

Character

Loner

Play

As an actor, I don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I’m scared, and I just hang out. It’s like being in detention – you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what’s going on.

Hanging Out

Scared

Waiting

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 world.

Creative

Design

Fundamentals

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Destroyed

Rebuilding

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Entertainment

Facts

Wall

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you’re like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

Acting

Thinking

Writing

Humility in this business [acting] isn’t just a matter of being polite, it’s kind of a matter of survival. You can’t ever afford to think that you’re the bee’s knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

Humility

Survival

Thinking

I certainly don’t want to have too many pre-conceived notions before I show up because then you might be cutting yourself off from the real lessons of what is going on.

Cutting

Lessons

Real

I don’t pick my roles by genre; that’s kind of silly.

Kind

Roles

Silly

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Acting

Action

Advantage

Artist

Baby

Believe

Bored

Careers

Character

Chicago

Children

Comedy

Couple

Crazy

Creative

Cutting

Dad

Dark

Daughter

Design

Destroyed

Dog

Done

Drama

Elephants

Emotional

Empires

Emptiness

Enjoy

Enough Time

Entertainment

Everyday

Evil

Expression

Facts

Fans

Feels

Fighting

Focus

Fortune

Fun

Fundamentals

Giants

Girlfriend

Give Me

Giving

Great Things

Growing Up

Hair

Hanging Out

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Quotes by Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

A lot of times people will send me stuff. They will find something and they will send it to me and then I will take a look at it. Every once in awhile I will go on IMDB for 10 or 15 minutes and look around. But I am not a huge gearhead. I don’t even have my own computer. I use my girlfriends.

A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don’t have best friends or best buddies.

As an actor, I don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I’m scared, and I just hang out. It’s like being in detention – you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what’s going on.

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 world.

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you’re like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

Humility in this business [acting] isn’t just a matter of being polite, it’s kind of a matter of survival. You can’t ever afford to think that you’re the bee’s knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

I certainly don’t want to have too many pre-conceived notions before I show up because then you might be cutting yourself off from the real lessons of what is going on.

I don’t pick my roles by genre; that’s kind of silly.

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