Mark Sheppard Quotes

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

Tell me something I can dance to.

We are all riding on the same bus.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.