25 Quotes by Michael Ironside

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

I’m totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.

I’m never going to be the lead actor guy. I’m real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It’s what I do. It’s like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

It’s kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I’ve been doing it ever since.

I’m a director’s actor; I’m a storyteller’s actor.

I mean, I’ve been in a hundred and fifty films; I don’t want to just sit around and talk about things.