Michael Shannon Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.

  Michael Shannon

  Powerful, Careers, Rise To Power

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.

  Michael Shannon

  Dog, Self, Expression

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Michael Shannon

  Humility, Thinking, Survival

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  People, Acting, Scare

• I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.

  Michael Shannon

  Real, Years, Acting

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Bored, Acting, Great Things

  Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.

• I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

  Michael Shannon

  Running, Crazy, People

• One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

  Michael Shannon

  Real, Thinking, Acting

• 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.

  Michael Shannon

  Writing, Thinking, Acting

• I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

  Michael Shannon

  Growing Up, Acting, Sound

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