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If you lose at home, twice in a row, it's not a nice feeling and we're not used to that.


Ian Holloway

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IAN MCSHANE Acting's boring.
IAN MCSHANE I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill g...
IAN MCSHANE I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
IAN MCSHANE My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for tw...
IAN MCSHANE Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
IAN MCSHANE If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba...
IAN MCSHANE You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
IAN MCSHANE There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
IAN MCSHANE You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
IAN MCSHANE When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play...
IAN MCSHANE I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to ...
IAN MCSHANE What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
IAN MCSHANE My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
IAN MCLAGAN I only seem to date younger women.
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park...
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when ...
IAN MCLAGAN When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm...
IAN MCLAGAN