54 Quotes by Ian McShane

I’m a child of the Sixties.

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.

I mean, I’m an actor. I do what comes along.

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.

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

Acting's boring.

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.

There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.

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.