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.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.