Michael Shannon

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But it can give you a little bit of vertigo if you actually look back at everything and think, oh my God, I was a part of all of that.

it makes you a little dizzy, for real.

But it's also the past, you know, and I'm always thinking, well, what can I do now that would be worth a darn, you know, and keep pushing myself.

And I still feel like I have so much to learn.

There's so much, not just about acting, but about life and the world and

I guess the thing I'm most grateful for in my career is how much I've learned about the world through acting.

And when I look at these projects that I have now, Nuremberg and Death by Lightning, I learned so much.

I would have never known anything about Robert Jackson had I not done Nuremberg.

And I probably wouldn't have known anything about President Garfield had I not done Death by Lightning.

So I just want to keep discovering and learning.

Oh, gosh.

I mean, that was a thrill, you know.

I'm as big a fan of Goodfellas as anybody.

And also the movie Something Mild, the Jonathan Demme film.

I remember seeing him in that and thinking, that's the scariest demon being I've ever seen in my life.

And he had those beautiful blue eyes, those ice water eyes, you know, just very powerful eyes.

I was a little weak in the knees, I suppose, but I got over it.

Well, I mean, the issue was is that I had to be scarier.

Right.