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 enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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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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I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.
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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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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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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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The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.
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Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
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Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.
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The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
