Michael Shanks Quotes

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

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Michael Shanks

Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor, writer and director. He is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and as Charles Harris in the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope. He is also known for his work on low budget, genre work filmed in Canada.

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Michael Shanks

It would be certainly arrogant of me to claim that the show was not a good show without myself at the centre.

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Michael Shanks

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.

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Michael Shanks

There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

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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.

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Michael Shanks

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.

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Michael Shanks

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.

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Michael Shanks

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.

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Michael Shanks

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

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Michael Shanks

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

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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.

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Michael Shanks

You know, if it doesn't work, we can always cut it.

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I've always found ways to bend the rules.

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The environment on set is very encouraging.

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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.

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