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" The bad boy: always more fun. "
Ian McShane
Boy
More
Fun
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" Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist. "
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" I've never hankered for any role. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along. "
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" Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted. "
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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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" 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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" There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones. "
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" My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.' "
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" I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies. "
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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
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" I don't do social media. "
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Social Media
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" People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive. "
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Obsessive
People
Before
" 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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