Michael Shanks Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

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#3. 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.

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#4. By the end of last year we solved a lot of threads, and it's really good for this new way we're taking the show to really have these new people and these new energies, frankly.

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#5. So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.

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#6. I've always found ways to bend the rules.

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

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#8. You know, if it doesn't work, we can always cut it.

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#9. I find directing more satisfying.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.

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

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#15. With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

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#16. We never thought the show would last this long.

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#17. I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

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#18. I couldn't be playing him for this long if I didn't like him.

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

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#22. The environment on set is very encouraging.

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#23. It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp.

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