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Michael Shannon

It’s obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

– Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

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

Michael Shannon

When I’m working, I don’t wake up and say, ‘OK, time to go be intense.’ I just look at whatever scenes we’re working on that day and break them down – just real intense everyday work.

– Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you’re seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

– Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting to me to try and follow how other people, real or imaginary, would deal with problems, because I was trying to deal with my own problems.

– Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

Well, I think anybody who’s had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don’t think there’s gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

– Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don’t think she’d start playing Blackjack.

– Michael Shannon

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

Michael Shannon

I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.

– Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn’t one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn’t want to.

– Michael Shannon

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

Michael Shannon

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can’t help myself.

– Michael Shannon

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