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Ian McShane Quotes
Ian McShane
English
Actor
Born:
Sep 29
,
1942
Acting
Get
Good
Me
Think
You
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I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.
Ian McShane
Death
Believe
Penalty
Vengeance
Understand
Death Penalty
Personal
People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
Ian McShane
People
Before
Think
Obsessive
Becomes
Tweet
The bad boy: always more fun.
Ian McShane
Bad
Bad Boy
More
Boy
Always
Fun
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?'
Ian McShane
You
King
Everybody
Our
Way
Out
Tell
Texting
Whenever
Them
Whipped
Pause
Skirts
Hercules
Set
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.
Ian McShane
Love
Good
Beast
Love Story
Think
Sexy
Another
Just
Story
Reason
Gangster
Film
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
Ian McShane
Generation
Old
Seventy
Part
How
Years
Did
Die
Going
Happen
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.
Ian McShane
You
People
Few
Television
Shadow
Know
Around
Doing
Years
Escaped
Any
Done
Stopped
Successful
Show
Four
I'm a child of the Sixties.
Ian McShane
Child
Sixties
I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
Ian McShane
Age
Bit
Menopause
Had
Until
Continue
Male
Started
When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.
Ian McShane
You
Yourself
Judge
Everything
Go
Very
Your
Hard
Early
Early 20s
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
Ian McShane
Dance
Down
Stripped
Characters
Kind
Different
Theater
Different Kind
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
Ian McShane
Teacher
Good
Me
Class
Reading
Gave
Sight
Pretty
Pretty Good
Guy
Football
Football Player
Also
Comfortable
Very
Manchester
Manchester United
Happened
Loved
Loved Playing
Scripts
Soccer
Who
Dad
United
Player
Playing
'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane
Heart
First
Through
Because
Came
Efforts
Screen
Place
Special
Series
Special Place
What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
Ian McShane
Work
Great
You
Out
About
Hang
While
Acting
Your
My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
Ian McShane
Relationship
Marriage
Girl
Met
Married
Long-Distance
Disaster
Got
Years
Going
Manchester
Then
Second
Kept
Two
There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
Ian McShane
Good
Unlucky
Bad
Good Ones
Kinds
Only
Bad Ones
Lucky
Actor
Two
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
Ian McShane
Made
Gone
Had
Another
Deadwood
Got
Years
Movies
Many
Two
You don't know where life takes you.
Ian McShane
Life
You
Takes
Know
Where
What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
Ian McShane
Capitalism
Problems
Own
Society
Brought
About
Civilised
Talk
Deadwood
How
Came
Did
Started
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
Teacher
You
Happy
School
Try
Year
Too
OK
Out
Had
He
Academy
Said
Got
Did
Going
Worked
Next
Should
Next Year
Who
Actor
Mum
Play
Royal
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.
Ian McShane
Work
You
Before
Those
Characters
He
Most
Infamous
Pirate
Done
Which
Your
Who
Lived
Ever
Start
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