Ian McShane Net Worth

Ian McShane's Quotes

• The bad boy: always more fun. It's funny. When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself. It's like when you're in drama school, and you're playing a 60-year-old in Russian plays, and you get criticized, and you say, 'What the hell, I'm an 18-year-old trying to be a 60-year-old Russian?' But the bad boy, I had a knack for it from the start.
• Giving up smoking was the hardest one of all - tougher than alcohol and drugs. I was smoking at work out of boredom a lot of the time. You'd finish filming a scene and have three hours until the next one. I always say that movies pay me to wait around - and I do the acting for free.
• That was a volatile time in my life. Lunacy. Off the rails for a year and a half. Sylvia was a great girl, but we were hardly seeing each other towards the end, because we were always away filming in different parts of the world and then, when we did meet, we would fight.
• My wife is American, though, and she's been my wife for 36 years, and I do love the place. When I see all this Trump bullshit, all his bombast and stupidity, I think that's not the America I know.
• I became a high-functioning alcoholic and drug taker. I would always remember my lines, and always be on time, but some of the films I was in then I have no recollection of having done them.

Interesting Facts about Ian McShane

1. Children: Kate McShane (b. 1971), Morgan McShane (b. 1975).
2. After over 40 years in the business, he finally struck it big internationally with his performance as the macho, gruffly-complex villain, Al Swearengen, on the HBO series, Deadwood (2004).
3. An appealing romantic lead in several hit movies of the sixties, by the late seventies he had progressed to character parts, such as the title roles in the BBC Disraeli (1978) and the very popular TV series Lovejoy (1986).
4. His favorite shows are Family Guy (1999) and The Simpsons (1989). In a 2010 interview he remarked "They tell you what's happening in the world. Best shows on television".
5. His father was Scottish. His mother, who was English-born, was of Irish and English ancestry.
6. Was close friends with John Hurt since the start of their careers.
7. Close friend of Charles Dance and Stephen Dillane.
8. He has three grandchildren through his daughter Kate.
9. Got his first acting experience with the National Youth Theatre.
10. He toyed with the idea of being a footballer but decided he wasn't good enough.
11. His father, Harry, was a professional footballer with Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers and Manchester United then became a scout.