Michael Shanks

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

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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. ↗

— Michael Shanks

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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. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#energies #frankly #good #last #last year

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

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I couldn't be playing him for this long if I didn't like him. ↗

— Michael Shanks

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I find directing more satisfying. ↗

— Michael Shanks

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I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year. ↗

— Michael Shanks

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I've always found ways to bend the rules. ↗

— Michael Shanks

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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. ↗

— Michael Shanks

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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. ↗

— Michael Shanks

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