Michael Shannon movie quotes

“I exist only to protect Krypton. That is the sole purpose for which I was born. And every action I take, no matter how violent or how cruel, is for the greater good of my people. And now... I have no people. My soul, that is what you have taken from me!”

Michael Shannon - General Zod

“A man washes his hands before or after tending to his needs. It tells you a lot about a man. He does it both times - points to a weakness in character.”
Michael Shannon - Richard Strickland

“If you don’t control your fate, it will control you.”
Michael Shannon - White Death

You know, when I was a boy, my father tried to whip me with a branch. But after the first hit, it broke into three little pieces. And we just stood there, looking at this shattered stick on the ground. And then I noticed there was a leather strap hanging on the wall, so I pointed to it and said, “Look. That’s the better one.” And he stopped. I... (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Shannon - George Westinghouse

“Franklin Pope-Don’t let him agitate you. This is how he is. Before he was a wizard, I let him live in my basement. My wife wouldn’t have him at the table with us unless he cleaned himself. And, boy, given the ultimatum, the man ate alone.
George Westinghouse-How does he work?
Franklin Pope-You want to know his secret? He engineers his own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Stanley Townsend - Franklin Pope
Michael Shannon - George Westinghouse

“The value of something isn't what someone's willing to pay, but the value of something is what it contributes.”
Michael Shannon - George Westinghouse

“It seems to me that Mr. Edison puts his name on everything because he's terrified of being forgotten. But if you want to be remembered, it's simple. Shoot a president. But if you prefer to have what I call a legacy, you leave the world a better place than you found it.”
Michael Shannon - George Westinghouse

“- Lor-Em: General Zod, for the crimes of murder and high treason, the council has sentenced you and your fellow insurgents to 300 cycles of somatic reconditioning. Do you have any last words?
- General Zod: You won't kill us yourself! You wouldn't dirty your hands but you'll damn us to a black hole for eternity! Jor-El was right! You're a pack...” (continue)(continue reading)
Julian Richings - Lor-Em
Michael Shannon - General Zod

“You wake up one day and you're an adult. And all the people you were just dreaming about have gone and changed. So you shake the sleep-dust from your eyes and you say, was it really so long ago that you and I sat together having fun?”
Michael Shannon - John Rosow

“- Galen: I know I'm just your uncle, not a parent, but uh, you can tell me things if need to.
- Neckbone: I can tell you this helmet smells like my duck butter.”
Michael Shannon - Galen
Jacob Lofland - Neckbone

“- Dr. Robert Hoffstetler: He's bleeding. What happened?
- Richard Strickland: It's an animal, Hoffstetler. Just keepin' it tame.”

Michael Stuhlbarg - Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
Michael Shannon - Richard Strickland

“- Richard Strickland: The thing we keep in there is an affront. Do you know what an affront is, Zelda?
- Zelda: Something offensive?
- Richard Strickland: That's right. And I should know, I dragged that... filthy thing... out of the river muck in South America all the way here. And along the way we didn't get to like each other much. Now. You...” (continue)(continue reading)

Michael Shannon - Richard Strickland
Octavia Spencer - Zelda Fuller

“The natives in the Amazon worshiped it. Like a god. We need to take it apart, learn how it works.”

Michael Shannon - Richard Strickland

- Bobby Andes: What you gonna tell me about Ray and Turk?
- Lou: Who?
- Bobby Andes: "Who"? What are you, an owl? You an owl, Lou?
Michael Shannon - Bobby Andes
Karl Glusman - Lou

“There's only one way this ends, Kal. Either you die, or I do.”
Michael Shannon - General Zod

“I do not fail. I deliver.”
Michael Shannon - Richard Strickland

“- Dr. Robert Hoffstetler: This creature is intelligent. Capable of language... Of understanding emotions!
- Richard Strickland: So are the Soviets. The gooks. And we still kill them, don't we?”

Michael Stuhlbarg - Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
Michael Shannon - Richard Strickland

“- Steven Goldstein: I am not a radical. I am a middle-class, Jewish homosexual from New Jersey. How about you, sweetheart?
- Dane Wells: I'm a straight, white, ex-Protestant, atheistcop. You okay with that, sweetheart?
- Steven Goldstein: I am. That is very hot.”
Steve Carrell - Steven Goldstein
Michael Shannon - Dane Wells

“- Bobby Andes: I told you, I got lung cancer. It's metastasized.
- Edward Sheffield: But you smoke all the time.
- Bobby Andes: Yeah, well, that's how it works.”
Michael Shannon - Bobby Andes
Jake Gyllenhaal - Edward Sheffield

“- Tony Hastings: What we're gonna do?
- Bobby Andes: It's a question of how serious you are about seeing justice done.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Tony Hastings
Michael Shannon - Bobby Andes

“- Walter: You know, talking to you is like riding on a fucking merry-go-round.
- Rosen: That's a marvelous image, Walter. Because by going in circles, we find things we missed the first time around.”
Kevin Bacon - Walter
Michael Shannon - Rosen

“My name is General Zod. I come from a world far from yours. For some time, your world has sheltered one of my citizens. I request that you return this individual to my custody. For reasons unknown, he has chosen to keep his existence a secret from you. He will have made efforts to blend in. He will look like you, but he is not one of you.”

Michael Shannon - General Zod

“The hopeless emptiness? Now, you've said it. Plenty of people are on to the emptiness; but, it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.”
Michael Shannon - John Givings

“- Wilee: Who are you, man?
- Bobby Monday: I'm the guy you don't fuck with.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Wilee
Michael Shannon - Bobby Monday

It's the way things are, it's "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer." They devised a plan to manipulate technology, economics, the media, population control, world religion, to keep things the way they are. And they have continued to meet once a year, every year, since the original meeting.

Michael Shannon - Peter Evans