Michael Chiklis Quotes

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

Everyone thinks I'm a nice guy, which is not a bad way to be perceived.

Vince was so great at the 'Mr. McMahon' character that some people think he wouldn't want to help people in real life, and that's just not true.

They want to portray me as crazy, unhinged, unbalanced. OK, good, fine.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

To some people I'll always be the bad guy.

I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

It's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?

If you can't say anything bad about someone, don't say anything at all, because it won't get printed.

To do good, and be evil spoken of, is kingly.

When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.

If you talk to anybody, among the first things you'll hear is, 'Steve Carell is the nicest guy in the world.' And he is. 'Steve Carell is the greatest guy to work with.' And he is. But all of that belies other aspects that are as true with him.

Here's what I've learned about Hillary Clinton: She will be criticized when she speaks; she will be criticized when she doesn't speak. And so I think she should speak her mind.