Michael Shanks Quotes


"It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: Character, Affection, Play)

"It's fun to play the character and then watch him later."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: Character, Fun, Play)

"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
(Related: Job, Thinking, Years)

"The environment on set is very encouraging."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: Encouraging, Environment)

"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
(Related: Concern, Now, Want)

"We never thought the show would last this long."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: Thought)

"With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: Network, Writers)

"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
(Related: Character)

"There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: People)

"I've always found ways to bend the rules."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: Rules)

"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
(Related: Idea, Character, Mind)

"I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: Writing)

"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
(Related: Feelings, Hurt, Result)

"I find directing more satisfying."
- Michael Shanks
"I couldn't be playing him for this long if I didn't like him."
- Michael Shanks
"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
(Related: Reason)

"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
(Related: People, End)

"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
(Related: Experience, Possibilities)

"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
(Related: Science, Goals, Actor, Fact, Fiction, Options, Years)