Rory McCann Quotes

I don’t have a mortgage, I don’t have a wife and I don’t have kids, so I’m quite happy bumbling along.

I’m a man‘s man. I go out climbing and live outdoors.

I’ve got to say my mother is the most important woman in my life, and not just because she is a ‘Scotsman’ reader.

I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with,them. I loved learning a new skill. I will never look at a piece of wrought iron the same way now. I can now make semi-decent knife blades and candlesticks myself.

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, ‘Whatever you do, don’t shave,’ and I hadn’t really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

I’m on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that’s coming up, and I found that’s the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you’ll be; it’s all about being alive in that moment and listening.

If I had a long-term partner, I don’t think I’d be an actor. It’d be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff – it would be too much.

I’m single because I move about so much that I can’t really get attached.

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I’ve sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

I wouldn’t say I’m that social… I’m either sailing my boat by myself or living in some small place.

My roles aren’t huge, but it’s a start.

I am very lucky in that if I don’t get a job for six months or a year, I’ve got other things I can do and am fit enough to still do physical work.

I’m just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, which I’m thoroughly looking forward to it. It’s not got electricity or anything.

When I get a job, I make phone calls to every single person I know and tell them not to bloody call me.

The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really – my name, McCann, the translation isn’t ‘Son of Ann’… It comes from ‘Canis’ – as in ‘canine’ – as in ‘dog!’ My name – Rory McCann – means Rory Hound, Rory Wolfhound.