Ian McShane Quotes

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

The bad boy: always more fun.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm a child of the Sixties.

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

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

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