Michael Smith
Michael Smith
college hard
Ain't too many 14-year-olds that come and tell you they want to play big-time college football. I never have to tell him how hard he's got to work.
mind retirement savings separate
You should separate in your mind and say, this is retirement money, it's not a savings account.
might since treat
You might as well say we're one big family, since that's the way we treat each other.
fish guarantee
All we can guarantee is the fish are there.
automatic bank checking credit money point program regular savings start system takes touch
You can start a regular savings program through a credit union, if you have one, or set it up with your bank as an automatic withdrawal from your checking account. The point is that your system makes you do it, and it takes the money before you ever touch it.
asked bit early grew gum hospitals metal mom offered offices piece suburb
I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!
adorable collect puppies
I collect pictures of adorable puppies on my phone. I have little room for anything else.
building certain character coolest expresses flavor mouth moves puts start ways words
One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts his words into, how he expresses himself, and there's a certain flavor you get with a dialect.
rehearsal
'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.
comics handful perspective time
When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.
I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.
I take things a little too seriously sometimes.
I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.
pianist studied
I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.