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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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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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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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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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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
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It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
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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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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There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.
Michael Shanks
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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.
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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So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.
Michael Shanks
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