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Ian McShane Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 1: Mister Wu
Tagged: slitting throat
“Every fuckin’ beatin’ I’m grateful for. Every fuckin’ one of them. Get all the trust beat outta you. And you know what the fuckin’ world is.”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 1: Reconnoitering the Rim
Tagged: beating, Torture, Trust
“They're hypocrite cocksuckers. And the fuckin' lyin' instruments and tactics they use to fuck people up the ass can be turned against them.”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 2: Amalgamation and Capital
Tagged: Hypocrisy, Cocksucker, Anal Sex
“Blazanov: Fuck confidentiality of communication.

Al Swearengen: Why not fuck a woman instead?

Blazanov: Hope to, eventually.”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 3: Unauthorized Cinnamon
Tagged: Fuck, Communication, Confidentiality
“Shadow: None of this feels real. It feels like a dream.

Wednesday: What a beautiful, beautiful thing to be able to dream when you're not asleep.”
— Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, Season 1: Head Full of Snow
Tagged: Dream, Asleep, Awake, Beautiful, Reality, Magic
“Shadow: I think I'm losing my mind.

Wednesday: Well, when will you know for sure?”
— Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, Season 1: The Secret of Spoons
Tagged: Cheeky, Witty, crazy, joke, strange
“Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man—and give some back.”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 2: E.B. Was Left Out
Tagged: Pain, Damage, Beatings, punishment
“Dan: I'm older, and I'm much less friendly to fuckin' change.

Al Swearengen: Change ain't lookin' for friends. Change calls the tune we dance to.”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 3: Tell Your God To Ready For Blood
Tagged: Change, Fate, older
“Media: Wouldn't you like an upgrade? A brand new, lemon-scented you?

Wednesday: Oh I'm a fine me. I just keep getting better every year.”
— Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, Season 1: Lemon Scented You
Tagged: Upgrade, Self-Confidence, Self-Worth, Cheeky, Fine
“Get a fuckin' haircut. Looks like your mother fucked a monkey.”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 1: Mister Wu
Tagged: haircut, Bad Haircuts
“I'd rather try touching the moon than take on a whore's thinking.”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 1: Plague
Tagged: Whore, Thinking, touching the moon, impossible
“Wednesday: I offer you the worm from my beak and you look at me like I fucked your mom.

Shadow: Sorry, no. You're just the first person I talked to that wasn't an asshole.

Wednesday: Give me time.”
— Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, Season 1: The Bone Orchard
Tagged: Cheeky, Raunchy, Vulgar, asshole, kindness, joke, Time
“E.B. Farnham: It's Hearst. Hearst: is he Caesar, to have fights to the death for diversion? Murder his workers at whim? Smash passages in the fucking wall? A man of less wealth would be in fucking restraints.

Al Swearingen: We're in the presence of the new.

E.B.: Fuck the fucking new! Jesus Christ, Al. Is it over for us here?”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 3: A Rich Find
Tagged: Hearst, caesar, Jesus Christ
“Al: [after waking up from his 'coma'] Did you fuck me when I was out?


Dan: Hell, no.


Al: Then quit looking at me like that.”
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood, Season 2: Complications
Tagged: Coma, Waking Up, morning hair
“Wednesday: Too many people tell each other not to repress their emotions, to release their feelings, to let the pain go. There's a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. I'm gonna tell you something and you're gonna want to hurt me, but what I say has gotta be said. So I want you to consider my words very carefully and refrain from knocking my teeth out.

Shadow: Say it.

Wednesday: Word on the street is your wife died sucking your best friend's cock. And you, sir, are only obligated to feel bad about that for so long.

Shadow: Thank you...for warning me.”
— Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, Season 1: The Secret of Spoons
Tagged: Vulgar, Cheating, Insult, Truthful, Hurtful, blunt, Feelings, Repression
“Wednesday: That woman thinks Jesus suffered for her sins. They're her sins, why should Jesus do all the suffering?

Shadow: Cause his dad sacrificed his ass.

Wednesday: Don't blame the parent. Plenty of suffering and blame to go around. Although that White Jesus could stand a little more suffering. He's doing very well for himself these days.

Shadow: ...And how many colors does Jesus come in?

Wednesday: Well you got your white, Jesuit-style Jesus, you got your black African Jesus, you got your brown Mexican Jesus, you got your swarthy Greek Jesus—

Shadow: That's a...That's a lot of Jesus.

Wednesday: There's a lot of need for Jesus, so there are a lot of Jesus.”
— Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, Season 1: Head Full of Snow
Tagged: Religion, Race, jesus, God, Dark Humor, Irreverent
“Shadow: Wasn't supposed to snow today. Wasn't even supposed to be cold.

Wednesday: So, you're perfectly okay believing that tiny people on television can predict the weather. But you crinkle with consternation at the mere suggestion that you could make it snow.

Shadow: One of those things is science, okay? The other is fantasy.

Wednesday: You're talking about it like it's apples and oranges.

Shadow: It's not apples and oranges, okay? It's reality and fantasy.

Wednesday: Oh, so that's how the world works! It's either real or it's fantasy?

Shadow: Yeah, that's how the world works.

Wednesday: Yeah, says the man who hasn't seen it. Shadow, at best, you suffer from a failure of imagination. We're gonna have to fix that.”
— Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, Season 1: Head Full of Snow
Tagged: Imagination, Reality, Fantasy, Science, Magic, Logic
“Wednesday: This is the only country in the world that wonders what it is.

Shadow: You've been to a lot of other countries, have you?

Wednesday: No. No, never, just this one. Just that the others know what they are. I mean, no one wonders about the heart of Norway or goes searching for the soul of Mozambique. Mozambique knows what it is. They all know what they are.

Shadow: Americans know who they are.

Wednesday: They pretend they know. But it's still just pretending, like I'm pretending now. Just like you.”
— Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, Season 1: Head Full of Snow
Tagged: Pretense, Confusion, America, Norway, Mozambique, pretending, heart, Soul, Identity
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