Ian McShane

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.