Ian McShane Quotes

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories.

I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.

The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

I have a terrible memory of my own past. I can barely remember my childhood. I have few memories from college and law school - though once I got married, I got the advantage of being able to consult my husband's memory.

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn't believe in love. But marriage - that fits some people but obviously not me.

I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.

I can't remember what my first script was.

Getting married young was the worst experience of my life. It was horrible - really horrible.

I already visited Rwanda when I was five, but I don't really remember my roots.

I always wanted to do something about what it's like to get divorced, especially when it's a young marriage to start with.

I've two failed marriages in the past.