Ian McShane Quotes
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
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Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.
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I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.
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If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.
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Some of the songs I have completely forgotten about. It's a lot of fun to go and revisit them.
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The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
