Michael Madsen Quotations

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.

Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.

I don't think I'm predominantly thought of as being a comedic actor.