Ian McShane Quotations

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.

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

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

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

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

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

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

I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

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

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

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

The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes

I'm a child of the Sixties.

The bad boy: always more fun.