Michael Shanks Quotes

• I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

  Michael Shanks

  Hurt, Thinking, Work Out

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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• I've always found ways to bend the rules.

  Michael Shanks

  Way, Found

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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• It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

  Michael Shanks

  Character, Play, Impossible

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• There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

  Michael Shanks

  Air, Starting Over, Want

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• I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

  Michael Shanks

  Comedy, Grain

  Source: movieweb.com

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• In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

  Michael Shanks

  Science, Years, Goal

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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• Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.

  Michael Shanks

  Thinking, Democracy, Mixtures

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• My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

  Michael Shanks

  Brother, Book, Comic

  "Michael Shanks on Smallville and Hawkman!". Interview with Jenna Busch, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

  Michael Shanks

  Agriculture, Possibility, Walks

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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• Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

  Michael Shanks

  People, Way

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• I find directing more satisfying.

  Michael Shanks

  Satisfying

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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• I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.

  Michael Shanks

  Character, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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