Ian McShane

“Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.”

“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 de...”

“If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.”

“What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.”

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

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

“When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on se...”

“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 had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.”

“There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.”