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" Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for. "
Ian McShane
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" 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. "
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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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" If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?' "
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" 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. "
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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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" People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive. "
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