Ian McShane Quotes

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

Growing up, you have all these ideas, and then you're confronted and faced with the real world for the first time. And you have to think of what you want your life to be.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

I'd promised my parents that I'd go to college, take the time to grow up a bit, and experience something different before really pursuing music.

When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

Most of us, whether we like it or not, we grow up and start having a different view of what we've done and who we are and where we're going.