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" The bad boys get all the best lines. "
Ian McShane
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" Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for. "
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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'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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" You don't know where life takes you. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.' "
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" I enjoy every role I do. "
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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 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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" I don't do social media. "
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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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" 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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Innocent
Walk
" I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down. "
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" What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work. "
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" Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually. "
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" I'm a child of the Sixties. "
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Sixties
Child
" 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
" I've never hankered for any role. "
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Any
Never
Role
" Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist. "
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America
He
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive. "
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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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" The bad boy: always more fun. "
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