Michael Chiklis

“I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life is my wife and my kids.”

“The work is the most important thing.”

“Shaving my head was a liberation. It was a completely new me.”

“I think there's a certain integrity that you have to have in this business.”

“The greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people.”

“Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right thing done.”

“It's clobberin' time!”

“I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.”

“You have to be willing to be bad at it to get good at it.”

“I've always been a physical actor. I'm not a talking head.”

“The Shield was a game-changer for television.”

“I'm not a method actor. I'm a 'get it done' actor.”