Quotes from Michael Ironside

I basically was a precocious little kid.

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

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

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.

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

I want to make smart television.

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

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

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

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.

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