Chiklis Quotes

#1. I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

Mark Valley

#2. Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Sean Faris

#3. All I think when I look at you is hallelujah

Emma Donoghue

#4. Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody's going to believe them.

Hillary Clinton

#5. I mean, in terms of comfort, it was horrible, but we knew the sequence was going to be good. That sort of drives you forward when you know what you're working on is going to be fun. You'll go through all manner of discomfort to get the shot.

Michael Chiklis

#6. Our favorite stories can be like lovers. Make sense to me, we ask them. Make sense of me. Here, fix these hurting parts. And stories do, sometimes better than our lovers.

Melissa Febos

#7. It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

Michael Chiklis

#8. I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I'm happy.

Michael Chiklis

#9. A brick layer, lays bricks ... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

Michael Chiklis

#10. When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

Michael Chiklis

#11. I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing ... but I hate the Yankees.

Michael Chiklis

#12. To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Salman Rushdie

#13. I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.

Michael Chiklis

#14. That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.

Michael Chiklis

#15. Well, the clown suit is a riot, too.

Michael Chiklis

#16. Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.

Michael Chiklis

#17. Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing.

Michael Chiklis

#19. I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

Michael Chiklis

#20. Sour taste of obligation postponed,

Roland Merullo

#21. I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

Michael Chiklis

#22. I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

Michael Chiklis

#23. I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

Michael Chiklis

#24. This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.

Michael Chiklis

#25. My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we've been together 20 years now!

Michael Chiklis

#26. Aaron: Dude, one thing the guy said is you don't taunt voodoo.
Zak: Am I taunting?
Aaron: Dude, you're taunting the crap out of it!
Zak: I am sorry, I am not taunting you I am just talking ... Talking loudly.

Zak Bagans

#27. The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Michael Chiklis