Ian McShane Quotes
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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Fashion is one big family.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
