Ian McShane
Ian McShane
Ian David McShaneis an English actor, voice artist, and comedian. He is known for his television roles, particularly Lovejoy, Deadwoodand Game of Thrones. He also starred as King Silas Benjamin in Kings, Bishop Waleran in The Pillars of the Earth, Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda, and Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 September 1942
CityBlackburn, England
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
water golden shrimp
The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes
men thinking innocent-man
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
boss different
Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
long acting cheques
As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
character play actors
Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
mean actors
I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
children sixty
I'm a child of the Sixties.
fun boys bad-boy
The bad boy: always more fun.
judging hard early-20s
When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.
character rawness different
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
horse gigs treats
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
soccer football teacher
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.
two firsts details
I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.