Michael Shanks quotes:
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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.
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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.
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I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.
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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.
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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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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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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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The environment on set is very encouraging.
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With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.
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I couldn't be playing him for this long if I didn't like him.
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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.
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It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
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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.
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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.
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I find directing more satisfying.
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I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.
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Ive always found ways to bend the rules.
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My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
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Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.