Quotes by Ian Mcshane - Page 1

I'm a child of the Sixties.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Children
Sixty
Child
Sixties
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The bad boy: always more fun.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Bad Boy
Boys
Fun
More
Always
Boy
Bad
Always Fun Bad
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Actors
Mean
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Mum
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Obsessive
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Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Actors
Character
Loathe
Play
Plays
To Love
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You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Paths
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Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Hero
Terrorist
Robert
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Details
Firsts
Two
Marriages
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I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Death Penalty
Vengeance
Penalty
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Settling
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The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Golden
Shrimp
Water
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Arrested
Therapy
Normally
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What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Acting
Work Great Your
Hang
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Deadwood
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Spectacular
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Boss
Different
Bosses
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Character
Different
Rawness
Different Kind
Stripped
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Age
Males
Menopause
Male
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Ex Wife
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There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Unlucky
Bad Ones
Good Ones
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Acting
Cheques
Long
Carry
Enjoying
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Seventy
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What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Gigs
Horse
Treats
Doodle
Rest
Gig
Treat
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When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Early 20s
Hard
Judging
Ahead
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Men
Guilty
Innocent
Innocent Man
Thinking
Liberal
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Heart Place Special
Efforts
Special Place
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Love Story
Love Good Sexy
Gangster
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Civilised
Deadwood
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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Disaster
Long Distance
Manchester
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Done
Infamous
Pirate
Work Start Your
Work Your Start
Work Your Done
Start
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
American Politics
Black
Guy
Hate
Obama
Centrist
Follow
Liberal
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If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Footballer
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Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Skirts
Texting
Hercules
Pause
Whipped
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Dance
Dance Floor
Demon
Disco
Fever
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Song
Me Song Dance
Era
Floor
John
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Shadow
Escaped
People Doing Done
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Academy
Mum
Next Year
Royal
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Dad
Teacher
Class
Comfortable
Football
Football Player
Guy
Happened
Manchester
Manchester United
Player
Reading
Scripts
Sight
Soccer
United
Pretty
Loved
Gave
Loved Playing
Pretty Good
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When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.
Ian Mcshane / Actor
Coffee
Costumes
Good Actors
Medieval
Pillars
Life Funny Good
School Play
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