Ian McShane Quotes
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.
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What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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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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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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Acting's boring.
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There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
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If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'
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What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
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I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.