Quotes by Michael Madsen - Page 1

My big ambition was to be Richard Petty.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Petty
Richard
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I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Skin
Leg
Poem
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I'm a leading man trapped in a bad guy's body.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Trapped
Leading Man
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Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?
Michael Madsen / Actor
Ifs
Our Family
Selling
Feeds
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Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Children
Our Children
Your Children
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I don't have a boss . . . nobody tells me what to do.
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Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Kids
Acting
Excuse
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Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Encouragement
Kids
Artistic
Sides
Everything Else
Toughen
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I'm glad I wasn't in 'Free Willy 3.' That's all I can say on that.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Glad
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I don't think I'm predominantly thought of as being a comedic actor.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Actors
Comedic
Thinking
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You kids shouldn't play so rough . . . somebody's gonna start crying.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Kids
Children
Play
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You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Knows
Matter
Who You Are
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'BloodRayne' was an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Movie
Horrifying
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Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Free Will
Remembered
Wells
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I'm not a publicity hound. I don't care about being on the cover of 'GQ' or 'Vanity Fair.'
Michael Madsen / Actor
Publicity
Vanity Fair
Gq
Hound
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'L.A. Confidential' was written with me in mind, but Russell Crowe got the part. Go figure.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Confidential
Russell
Russell Crowe
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I can't surf, so I swim. It's the best workout I've ever known because it works your entire body.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Surf
Swim
Workout
Best Body Your
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I swim a lot, almost every day. I just go out to the beach by my place in Malibu and jump into the ocean.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Ocean
Beach
Malibu
Swim
Almost Every Day
Day Every Day Place
Jump
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I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Interviews
Lessons
Years
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People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'
Michael Madsen / Actor
Remembers
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When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Silly
True Story
Cause
Make Up
Silly Thing
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When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Character
Real
Silly
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I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Mechanic
Qualified
Tow
Truck
Anything Else
Auto
Drove
Tried
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I don't walk around the street thinking, 'I'm Michael Madsen,' but then again, I am that guy, and sometimes people do take notice of me. Sometimes it's really not comfortable.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Michael
Notice
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I used to be one of those guys with a lot of angst, you know? I just don't anymore. I'm not angst-ridden anymore. I've faced reality of what I am and what I have to do in life.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Angst
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I've had a lot more good luck than bad, and I've made a lot more good pictures than bad ones, and I'm pretty happy with what I have. I don't walk around regretting too many things.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Good Luck
Luck
Bad Ones
Good Walk Bad
Good Bad Luck
Walk
Pictures
Regretting
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I don't get the IMDb... I've called them several times myself and said, 'Guys, look... ' I've given them specific titles that should not be on there. But they won't take them down.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Titles
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I don't know if there's anything sadder than an actor who hasn't made a good picture, and at least I got a few good ones that will stand the test of time. I feel very fortunate about that.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Good Ones
Sadder
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You get these horrifying straight-to-video things for very little money, then you go to the Cannes Film Festival, and they got some poster of you, 40 ft. high, in the worst movie in the world.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Movie
Cannes
Film
Little Money
Worst
High
Festival
Film Festival
Horrifying
Poster
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Children recognize me from Free Willy (1993), and their parents recognize me from Reservoir Dogs (1992). The kids are, like, "There's Glen!" and the parents are, like, "Don't go near that guy!"
Michael Madsen / Actor
Kids
Children
Dog
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I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would watch actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas, and I understood them.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Bogart
Douglas
Robert
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I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Jobs
Airplane
Labor
Long
Long Time
Made
Manual Labor
Mechanic
Orderly
School
Auto
Ended
Factory
Hospital
Manual
Parts
Really Long Time
Tried
Worked
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I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Decision
Done
Groceries
Son
Bad Movie
Pictures
Rent
Sons
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Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Movies
Black
Black And White
Born
Certain
Screenplays
Throwback
Type
White
Rise
Bit
Days
Wrong
Era
Gave
Guys
Maybe
Plots
Simplistic
Suit
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My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Careers
Heart
House
Monsters
Now And Then
Roof
Strange
Work Hope Good
Project
Heads
Monitor
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I do get cast in the same role a lot, but the truth is, I just want longevity. The thing is, I'd rather be stuck in a stereotype than be nowhere. The whole typecasting thing started because of 'Reservoir Dogs.' And I did a bunch of other films like 'Wyatt Earp' and 'Free Willy,' but no one seems to remember those.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Longevity
Stereotype
Stuck
Nowhere
Dogs
Reservoir
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I'm kind of hard to double, but I did have one guy for a while as my double. I kind of like to do my own stunts, though, because it's just the overall experience. Sometimes you have to step aside when the stuff gets really dangerous, but I feel like sometimes you have to do your own stunts to make the role seem real.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Aside
Double
Overall
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I've done two motorcycle pictures: I did 'Beyond The Law,' and I did one produced by Tarantino called 'Hell Ride,' with Dennis Hopper and David Carradine and Vinnie Jones. And I just think 'Hell Ride' was a lot more of what a biker movie should be. But the good part of 'Beyond The Law' was that I had a good time with Charlie Sheen.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Movie
Charlie
Done
Hell
Law
Motorcycle
Should
Tarantino
Two
Time Good Done
Lot
Had
Did
David
Beyond
Time Good Ride
Charlie Sheen
Part
Good Time
Pictures
Produced
Ride
Sheen
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What people don't always understand is that I established a certain lifestyle for my family back in the days of 'Species' and 'Mulholland Falls' and 'The Getaway.' I wasn't about to move my six kids into a trailer park. So when people offered me work, it wasn't always the best, but I had to buy groceries, and I had to put gas in the car.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Car
Gas
Groceries
Lifestyle
Six
Species
Trailer Park
Best Family Work
Established
Buy
Falls
Move
Offered
Park
Trailer
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I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Block
People
Reading
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Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time available. I think that makes a huge difference. I think he instinctively knows how to make films and all the different ways that you can make stuff. He's very gadget-wise, and he's very smart about all the different things that are available to a filmmaker nowadays, and he makes very good use of them. He has a theater in his house, for God's sake. It has proper curtains on it and everything. It's pretty wild.
Michael Madsen / Actor
God
Wise
Smart
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