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" I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million! "
Ian McShane
Film
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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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" You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change. "
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" I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK. "
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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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" 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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" 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 never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down. "
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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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" 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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" What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems. "
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