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Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.
— Michael Shannon
Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.
— Michael Shannon
The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.
— Michael Shannon
I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.
— Michael Shannon
I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.
— Michael Shannon
If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.
— Michael Shannon
People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.
— Michael Shannon
I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.
— Michael Shannon
Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.
— Michael Shannon
I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
— Michael Shannon
When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.
— Michael Shannon
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
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.
— Michael Shannon
I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.
— Michael Shannon
A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.
— Michael Shannon
I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.
— John Gallagher Jr.
If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.
— Michael Shannon
You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.
— Michael Shannon
Like the creatures living incognito amongst the human race, so will Michael attempt to conceal from others his strange powers and abilities.
— Shannon Rieger