Ian McShane Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I'm an actor.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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Ultimately, I don't know if love is an organizing principle we choose or if it's innate. I'm not sure the distinction matters to me much anymore; I just care about how we can reduce unnecessary suffering. I think that means learning to love in both the micro and the macro; engaging in ethical action at the level of intimacy and friendship, but also at the vocational level through our chosen work in the world, our right livelihood.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
