50 Quotes by Michael Madsen

Essentially all students involved in Up 'Til Dawn will be affected by the opportunity to help such a needy cause. Students will have the opportunity to learn more about what the Hospital does and what they can do to help out in different areas.

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

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.

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.

You kids shouldn't play so rough . . . somebody's gonna start crying.

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

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.

Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.

You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.