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

It's kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news..

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom..

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

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

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

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer..

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 r….

I want to make smart television..

One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Iro….

I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice..

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 ….

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

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

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..