Michael Ironside Quotes

#1. I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

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#2. I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

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#3. It's kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news.

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#4. I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

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#5. My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

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#6. I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.

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#7. People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

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#8. If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

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#9. I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

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#10. When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

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#11. I want to make smart television.

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#12. People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

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#13. I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

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#14. Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Use that freedom.

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#15. I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

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#16. I basically was a precocious little kid.

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