Zitat des Tages von Ian McShane:
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.
People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
I'm a child of the Sixties.
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.
The bad boys get all the best lines.
What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
I've never hankered for any role.
I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
I enjoy every role I do.
I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
I don't do social media.
I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'
I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.