Ian McShane Quotes

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Ian McShane

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 29, 1942

People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

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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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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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When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!

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Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.

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I've never hankered for any role.

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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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Acting's boring.

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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

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I enjoy every role I do.

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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

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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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You don't know where life takes you.

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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

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I'm a child of the Sixties.

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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.

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