Top 47 Quotes by Ian McShane

The bad boy: always more fun.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

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?'

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?'

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

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.

I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.