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" As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting. "
Ian McShane
Coming
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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 would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million! "
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" You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change. "
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" The bad boy: always more fun. "
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" If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made. "
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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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" Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted. "
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" I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman. "
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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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