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" I've never hankered for any role. "
Ian McShane
Any
Never
Role
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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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" The bad boys get all the best lines. "
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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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" You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones. "
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Bad
Good
Two
" Acting's boring. "
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Boring
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" What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle. "
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Treat
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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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Seventy
Generation
Die
" I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along. "
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Actor
Along
" I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy. "
Ian McShane
First
Remember
Details
" 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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Girl
Relationship
Disaster
" 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?' "
Ian McShane
Someone
Actor
Choice
" I'm a child of the Sixties. "
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Sixties
Child
" The bad boy: always more fun. "
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Boy
More
Fun
" You don't know where life takes you. "
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Life
Know
" What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work. "
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Your
Great
Hang
" 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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Ahead
Early
You
" I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. "
Ian McShane
Personal
Death Penalty
Believe
" I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. "
Ian McShane
Thinking
Innocent
Walk
" If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made. "
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Years
Gone
Movies
" 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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Good
Reading
Football
" I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45. "
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Started
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" I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million! "
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Successful
Big
" 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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Teacher
School
Said
" Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. "
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Dance
Theater
Kind