Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they’re not, actually. – Ian McShane
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle. – Ian McShane
As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I’m enjoying my work, I shall continue acting. – Ian McShane
‘Lovejoy’ has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen. – Ian McShane
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
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn’t going to die. – Ian McShane
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. – Ian McShane
You don’t particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife? – Ian McShane
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. – Ian McShane
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. – Ian McShane
I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45. – Ian McShane
When you’re in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it’s very hard to judge yourself. – Ian McShane
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. – Ian McShane
