Ian McShane Quotes
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
Quotes to Explore
-
If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
-
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
-
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
-
I love to push myself.
-
I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
-
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
-
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
-
I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
-
First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
-
I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
-
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
-
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
-
In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
-
Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
-
Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
-
I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
-
I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
-
With publicity comes humiliation.
-
I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.
-
I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
-
We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
-
But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.
-
If you put your mind to it, anything is possible.
-
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
