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Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
Michael Shannon
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Michael Shannon
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: August 7
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I just look at it as a real group activity when you are making movies. There are so many different artists doing so many different things, and they are all interconnected. So I like to see what everybody else is going to bring to the table before I make up my mind too much about anything.
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I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.
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People are morons. I don't do any social media stuff. I have people telling me all the time, You should do Twitter, you should do this, you should get on Facebook. Are you insane? I'm not doing any of that crap. I stay the hell off that thing. Every once in a while, I send a business email, and that's it.
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That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.
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I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.
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I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.
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I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.
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I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
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I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
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