Mcshane Quotes & Sayings

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife? — Ian McShane

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. — George Gissing

The bad boy: always more fun. — Ian McShane

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women. — Anna Howard Shaw

We (women) are a powerful force, but it is not our fists that propel us, it is our minds and wiles. — Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

Laurie's going to have a mighty easy life all right.
Annie Laurie McShane! She'll never have the hard times we had, will she?
No. And she'll never have the fun we had, either.
"Gosh! We did have fun, didn't we, Neeley?"
Yeah!
Poor Laurie, said Francie pityingly. — Betty Smith

Because anything is possible with people - even the ones you love, the ones you spend the most time with, even they can hold secrets. — Fiona McShane

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. — Ian McShane

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting. — Ian McShane

The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes — Ian McShane

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed. — Chris Christie

One person gets to decide if something is a problem in a relationship. — Amy Dickinson

I'm a child of the Sixties. — Ian McShane

I don't get the point, really," I'd said as we contemplated the plastic-wrapped roses. "Why give a girl something that's supposed to represent love that's only going to wilt and die in a matter of hours?"
Steven laughed and said that was a pretty pessimistic way to view life, and I shrugged.
Then he said, "All the best things are like that, though, Lex, the most beautiful things. Part of the beauty comes from the fact that they're short-lived." He picked up a bouquet of deep-red roses, held it out to me. "These will never be as beautiful as they are at this moment, so we have to enjoy them now."
I stared at him. He scratched the back of his neck, a little red-faced, then gave me a sheepish grin. "Just call me a romantic," he said.
I wanted to say that there were some things in this world, some rare things, that were beautiful and stayed that way. — Cynthia Hand

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with. — Brit Marling

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45. — Ian McShane

I don't remember my first two marriages ... the details are very sketchy. — Ian McShane

it's because you're a different person, every time you re-read a book, and you learn things your earlier self wouldn't have noticed or wouldn't have cared about. Or sometimes it's just because the story is an old favorite, and it's a comforting reminder of good things. — Melissa McShane

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa. — Joan Robinson

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays. — Ian McShane

A red-tailed hawk rose high on an air current, calling out shrill, sequential rasps of raptor joy. She scanned the sky for another one. Usually when they spoke like that, they were mating. Once she'd seen a pair of them coupling on the wing, grappling and clutching each other and tumbling curve-winged through the air in hundred-foot death dives that made her gasp, though always they uncoupled and sailed outward and up again just before they were bashed to death in senseless passion. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street. — Raniero Cantalamessa

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. — Ian McShane

She dreams of him that has forgot her love;
You dote on her that cares not for your love.
'Tis pity love should be so contrary;
And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas! — William Shakespeare

Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse. — Rudolf Bahro

This is for you, all the women of the world
Those who lived, all who ever will
this is for your love, mine is yours
Love is fate, I am here
Because you know the meaning of life
That begins and ends with a kiss
We are knights in shining ardor, who toil for you
And our children, it's a circle
So they will know this truth
Love is the sacred gospel, all we need to know
As your son and lover, my spirit lives imbued
With, from and by your wisdom and beauty
I am here to pay honor and homage to your soul
This is and will always be my devotion
This I dedicate, because through you I become whole — Trevor McShane

Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually. — Ian McShane

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

And in a nasty war, where's the best place to be? Apart from on the moon, o' course? No one?"
Slowly, Jade raised a hand.
"Go on, then," said the sergeant.
"In the army, sarge," said the troll. "'cos ... " She began to count on her fingers. "One, you got weapons an' armour an' dat. Two, you are surrounded by other armed men. Er ... Many, youse gettin' paid and gettin' better grub than the people in Civilian Street. Er ... Lots, if'n you gives up, you getting taken pris'ner and dere's rules about that like Not Kicking Pris'ners Inna Head and stuff, 'cos if you kick their pris'ners inna head they'll kick your pris'ners inna head so dat's, like, you're kickin' your own head, but dere's no rule say you can't kick enemy civilians inna head. There's other stuff too, but I ran outa numbers. — Terry Pratchett

I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along. — Ian McShane

the seedy-garish world of back-street London... restless rootless... beautiful, amoral, modern siren of doom in a jungle of dance halls, caffs and pubs. — Mark McShane

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. — Ian McShane

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. — Luke McShane

Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away. — Beth Nimmo