Ian McShane Quotes

One of the joys about acting is researching.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

People really don't understand what actors do.

But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.

When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.

I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

I was new to acting before my role in 'Madrasapattinam.'

Let's not forget that I am an actor and I'm a real budding, enthusiastic and ambitious actor.

As an actor, one should be open to all kinds of roles.

Understand that I had no concept of what being an actor was like when I was a kid - but I wanted to be an actor. Dressing up and being other people seemed like so much fun, but I didn't know what was involved.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.