Ian McShane Quotes

I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Culture
  • Conservative

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Me
  • Enjoy
  • Looking

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Hand
  • Poverty
  • Look

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • War
  • Help
  • Better

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Well

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  

  E. B. White
  • Man
  • Planet
  • Club

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • People
  • American
  • Today

• There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

  

  J. Budziszewski
  • Intelligent
  • Achieve
  • Stupidity

• I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

  

  Ian McShane
  • School
  • Happy
  • Teacher