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Michael Ironside
Canadian
Actor
About the author
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.
Michael Ironside,
Canadian
Actor
#Acting
#Writing
I want to make smart television.
Michael Ironside,
Canadian
Actor
#Want
#Television
I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.
Michael Ironside,
Canadian
Actor
#Actor
My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
Michael Ironside,
Canadian
Actor
#People
#Years
#Freedom
I basically was a precocious little kid.
Michael Ironside,
Canadian
Actor
If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
Michael Ironside,
Canadian
Actor
#Want
#Will
#Television
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Want
#Talk
People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.
Michael Ironside,
Canadian
Actor
#People
#Success
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Art
#College
#Painting
I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.
Michael Ironside,
Canadian
Actor
#First
#Actor
People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.
Michael Ironside,
Canadian
Actor
#People
#Wonder