Chiklis Chiklis Quotes & Sayings

Well, the clown suit is a riot, too. — Michael Chiklis

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials. — Dinesh D'Souza

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year. — Michael Chiklis

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again. — Michael Chiklis

When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next. — Michael Chiklis

That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music. — Michael Chiklis

Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing. — Michael Chiklis

A brick layer, lays bricks ... I'm an Actor, that's what I do. — Michael Chiklis

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know. — Mark Valley

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. — Mortimer Adler

Do you want me to lie to you?"
I grabbed his hand and forced him to hold the towel so I could work on his face. I cleaned him off with a cotton ball soaked in peroxide, which had him swearing and scowling at me. I found the little butterfly Steri-strip I bought and slapped a couple on his cheek.
"Yeah. I think I do." I couldn't tell the difference when he lied to me anyway. He grunted and narrowed his eyes even farther at me when I slimed some antibacterial goo on his lower lip.
"then no. You wold be exactly like all the rest. — Jay Crownover

I will live to the level of my own expectations, not others — Sara Wales

Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one. — Michael Chiklis

I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it. — Michael Chiklis

I would do anything to make you as happy as you make me. You are an amazing woman, and deserve to be treated like a princess. Let me be your Prince Charming, and I will make all of your fairytales come true. — S.H. Timmins

I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah. — Michael Chiklis

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long. — Sean Faris

You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light. — David Deida

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone. — John Bright

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way. — Amor Towles

I mean, in terms of comfort, it was horrible, but we knew the sequence was going to be good. That sort of drives you forward when you know what you're working on is going to be fun. You'll go through all manner of discomfort to get the shot. — Michael Chiklis

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil. — Michael Chiklis

My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we've been together 20 years now! — Michael Chiklis

I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I'm happy. — Michael Chiklis

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife. — Michael Chiklis

If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world. — Bob Torres

For me, a lot of these actors are new. For me, I only worked with Finn [Whittrock] and Michael Chiklis. So a lot of these actors are people I've been a huge fan of for years and are bucket-list actors for me to get to work with. It's pretty surreal now getting to step into scenes with them.You all get to find your characters together. — Matt Bomer

I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret. — Katja Millay

Really, how much of a relationship can she think they're having when he's still "selecting" her every morning? — Karen Marie Moning

He had looked at Jude, then, and had felt that same sensation he sometimes did when he thought, really thought of Jude and what his life had been: a sadness, he might have called it, but it wasn't a pitying sadness; it was a larger sadness, one that seemed to encompass all the poor striving people, the billions he didn't know, all living their lives, a sadness that mingled with a wonder and awe at how hard humans everywhere tried to live, even when their days were so very difficult, even when their circumstances were so wretched. Life is so sad, he would think in those moments. It's so sad, and yet we all do it. — Hanya Yanagihara

I think I was born with my eyes facing the wrong way. Because they're always looking into my head rather than looking out. — Laura Lee Gulledge

I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing ... but I hate the Yankees. — Michael Chiklis

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in. — Michael Chiklis

This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking. — Michael Chiklis