Ian McShane Quotes
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I've never hankered for any role.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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I don't do social media.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
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You don't know where life takes you.
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I enjoy every role I do.
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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.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?