Michael Shanks Quotes

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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

Think, Deserve, I Think, Psyche

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.

- Michael Shanks

New, New People, Last, Energies

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

Over, Like, Made, Starting Over

I find directing more satisfying.

- Michael Shanks

More, Find, Directing, Satisfying

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

Fact, Fiction, Been, Goals

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.

- Michael Shanks

Away, My Own, Though, Pare

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

- Michael Shanks

Protective, Shows, Writers, Syllable

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

- Michael Shanks

Tearing, About, Them, Apart

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

- Michael Shanks

Character, Play, Having, Affection

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

Happy, Possibilities, Away, Preparing

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

Doing, Next, Hamlet, Off-Season

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

- Michael Shanks

Boxes, Books, Comic Books, Comic

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

- Michael Shanks

Always, Found, Ways, Bend

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.

- Michael Shanks

Generation, Next, Some, Cast

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.

- Michael Shanks

Fired, Going, Having, Pilot

The environment on set is very encouraging.

- Michael Shanks

Environment, Very, Set, Encouraging

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

- Michael Shanks

Think, I Think, Definitely, Last Year

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