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Legendary actor Ian McShane shares a classic piece of Hollywood wisdom, originally from Milton Berle: "You'd rather be 'shit in a hit, than a hit in shit.'" He explains why the success of the overall film is more important than an individual acclaimed performance in a box office flop.
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00:00You'd rather be a shit and a hit than a hit and shit. It's true. If somebody says it's a,
00:04well, I never understand critics, they go, it's a terrible film, but the performances,
00:09you go, no, you can't separate them. But if the film is a hit, it's like,
00:15everybody said, well, success is, you know, success is many fathers and failure is an orphan,
00:20you know? I mean, which is always the most sad line about everything in life, basically.
00:24But especially movies, because everybody, I mean, you'd be amazed at people that come out
00:28of the woodwork and say they were involved with John Wick or had nothing to do with it,
00:31you know, originally. Oh, I produced that idea. You said, no, you probably read the script once
00:36and then it went past you. Well, that's Hollywood. Yeah.
00:39You once said in an interview, I think it was a Milton Berle quote, that you'd rather be,
00:43what is it? Oh, well, that's Milton Berle.
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