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."

"I get to bring these misshapen, emotionally unbalanced people to life."

"If I didn't like the attention, I suppose I wouldn't be doing this job. What do you do? Destroy someone's fantasy about you or play it to the limit? I still haven't quite worked it all out and I don't know how to resolve it. It's said actors act because they fear death and it's the one and only certainty for some kind of immortality. My attitude is: screw the future, let's get on with here and now. You don't know how long it'll last."