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" Acting's boring. "
Ian McShane
Boring
Acting
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" People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive. "
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" I've never hankered for any role. "
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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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" I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down. "
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" When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own. "
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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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" 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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" I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story. "
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" Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist. "
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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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" 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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" I enjoy every role I do. "
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" When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years. "
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" Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for. "
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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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" There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones. "
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" Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually. "
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" Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?' "
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" Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die. "
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Generation
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" I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along. "
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" I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies. "
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" My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.' "
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" Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. "
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" Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist. "
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" I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon. "
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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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