Ian McShane Quotes
As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
