Ian McShane's Quotes

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

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

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.

Acting's boring.

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

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

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

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

I'm a child of the Sixties.

The bad boy: always more fun.

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

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

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