Sossamon Shannyn Quotes & Sayings

Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much. — Shannyn Sossamon

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying. — Shannyn Sossamon

I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring. — Shannyn Sossamon

In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the purpose or the intention of your character's journey will be in the story. You don't have control. Sometimes that's wonderful, and sometimes that can be scary. — Shannyn Sossamon

I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it. — Shannyn Sossamon

I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality. — Shannyn Sossamon

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me. — Shannyn Sossamon

You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me. — Shannyn Sossamon

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are. — Shannyn Sossamon

I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all. — Shannyn Sossamon

If money is the only plus, I will always say no. But, if there's more, than I'm down. — Shannyn Sossamon

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. — Bruno Bauer

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it. — Shannyn Sossamon

I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum. — Shannyn Sossamon

I was very soft. I gained a lot of weight with my second child and was very on the couch. And [me manager ] said, "You know, this is a softer role [in Misteress]. She is a softer character. She's a lesbian that's always the passive half of the relationship." — Shannyn Sossamon

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of. — Shannyn Sossamon

When I sign on to a television show [Mistresses], I have to love that show and character so much, but this was in and out, for seven episodes. And it was nice to be able to make some money again because I hadn't work in a year and a half. There were a lot of pluses. — Shannyn Sossamon

I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit. — Theresa Wayman

I'm a little bit more of a relaxed, lazy mother. — Shannyn Sossamon

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more. — Shannyn Sossamon

Follow my lead, Miss Rook," Jackaby said, rapping on the ornately trimmed door to 1206 Campbell Street. Were my employer a standard private investigator, those might have been simple instructions, but in the time I've been his assistant, I've found very little about Jackaby to be standard. Following his lead tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality. — William Ritter

Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie. — Shannyn Sossamon

It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors. — Shannyn Sossamon

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. — Brent Musburger

I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling soft and I was nursing, but it was a character I'd never played before. That was a Paul Schrader script, with an up-and-coming Mexican director, named Alfonso Ulloa. That has Tim Roth and Paz Vega in it, and I enjoyed that, as well. — Shannyn Sossamon

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. — Bryant H. McGill

I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon. — Torrey DeVitto

Supporting a family and financial necessity aside, what I want is to read it and just have that feeling in your chest that you know you need to do it and you understand how you could get there, even if it scares you. — Shannyn Sossamon

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing. — Shannyn Sossamon

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself. — Shannyn Sossamon

Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up. — Shannyn Sossamon

It must be that there are years unlike other years, as different in climate and direction and mood as one day can be from another day. This year of 1960 was a year of change, a year when secret fears come into the open, when discontent stops being dormant and changes gradually to anger. It wasn't only in me or in New Baytown. Presidential nominations would be coming up soon and in the air the discontent was changing to anger and with the excitement anger brings. — John Steinbeck

If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air. — Curtis Jackson

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably. — Shannyn Sossamon