Ian McShane quotes:
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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.
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The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes
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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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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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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 had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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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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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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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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Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
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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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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.