When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.
More Quotes by Ian McShane
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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.
The bad boy: always more fun.
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.
You don't know where life takes you.