Michael 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. Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.

Jason Clarke

#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. It's the light of the oncoming train.

Robert Lowell

#9. 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.

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

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#11. I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

Margaret Mahy

#12. 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.

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

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

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#15. Mark Twain: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Wayne W. Dyer

#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.

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#17. If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

Tom Guiry

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

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

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

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

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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#24. With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.

Tyra Banks

#25. (What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Robert M. Pirsig

#26. 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!

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#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.

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