Michael Shannon movie quotes

“Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.”
Michael Shannon

“So you get your heart broke? Don't walk around with a shit look on your face. Get back in there, get your tip wet. You hear me?”

Michael Shannon - Galen

“Recently, for a second or two I almost felt like things were okay with the world. Strange to feel that way, when you know there are wars everywhere, everything's going to hell in a hand basket. But still I must admit, for a moment, I felt some kind of peace.”
Michael Shannon - John Rosow

“- April Wheeler: I hear you're a mathematician.
- John Givings: You hear wrong. Its all gone now.
- April Wheeler: All gone?
- John Givings: You know what electrical shock treatments are?
- April Wheeler: Yes. Yes, I do.
- John Givings: I had thirty-seven. It's supposed to jolt out the emotional problems. It just jolted out the mathematics.”
Kate Winslet - April Wheeler
Michael Shannon - John Givings

“You have a center, right? A place inside of you that's just you, that hasn't been spoiled. And I think it's really important to try and keep that space sacred. Sex or relationships cloud that space... or they cloud me I guess, and make it difficult to be just me and not have to worry about... being somebody else.”
Michael Shannon - Peter Evans

“I don't really mind living like this. Quiet, not much to say. But, sometimes, every once in a while, I remember back to when I had you.”
Michael Shannon - John Rosow

“- Peter Evans: The CIA had smuggled Nazi scientists into the States to work with the American military and Calspan, developing an inter-epidermal tracking microchip.
- Agnes White: A what?
- Peter Evans: It's a surveillance tool. It's a microchip that's been implanted in the skin of every human being born on the planet since 1982.”
Michael Shannon - Peter Evans
Ashley Judd - Agnes White

“- Sgt. Filmore: Hey soldier, no one said you could leave.
- Bozz: Why?
- Sgt. Filmore: Why what?
- Bozz: Why would I want to do that to another human?”

Michael Shannon - Sgt. Filmore
Colin Farrell - Pvt. Roland Bozz

“- Frankie Lombardo: Sal is not dissapointed because he cares about the money. He's disappointed because you two aren't dead! What do think he was paying Smith fifty grand for?
- Louis Booker: You mean to tell me that traveled halfway across the world to pay for our own execution?
- Frankie Lombardo: Yeah. You two were the bag men for your own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Shannon - Frankie Lombardo
Anthony Anderson - Louis Booker

“- Floyd Poteet: We've got our rights.
- Detective Mike Lowrey: Why don't you exercise your right to shut the fuck up?”

Michael Shannon - Floyd Poteet
Will Smith - Detective Mike Lowrey