Michael Ironside Quotes

• 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.

  Michael Ironside

  Play, Guy, Ends

  "11 Actors You Recognize Whose Names You Forget" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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

  Michael Ironside

  People, Wonder, Take Me

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• Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

  Michael Ironside

  Use, Figuring Things

  "Fictional character: Jean Rasczak". "Starship Troopers", www.imdb.com. November 4, 1997.

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

  Michael Ironside

  People, Share, Given

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• One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!'

  Michael Ironside

  Running, Father, Gun

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. October 13, 2009.

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

  Michael Ironside

  Voice, People, Mouths

  Source: collider.com

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

  Michael Ironside

  Years, People, Giving

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

  Michael Ironside

  Television, Want, Gamer

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

  Michael Ironside

  Games, World, News

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Michael Ironside

  Real, Long, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Michael Ironside

  Art, College, Would Be

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

  Michael Ironside

  Mean, Talking, Fifty

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• I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

  Michael Ironside

  Directors, Actors, Storyteller

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• I want to make smart television.

  Michael Ironside

  Smart, Television, Want

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

  Michael Ironside

  Writing, Acting, Lessons

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

  Michael Ironside

  Actors, Unions, Gigs

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• I basically was a precocious little kid.

  Michael Ironside

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

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