Ian Mckellen Quotes
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
Tatiana Maslany
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
Ed Westwick
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Naomi Watts
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
Ted Lange
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
Gavin Newsom
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
Famke Janssen
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
J. G. Ballard
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
J. C. Chandor
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
Yogi Berra
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
Abbe Pierre
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
Mahesh Babu
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
Otis Rush
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
Baz Luhrmann
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
Laura Dern
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
Gary Oldman
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
Vicki Lawrence
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
Taraji P. Henson
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I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.
Cameron Crowe
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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.
Tavi Gevinson
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It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
Nan Goldin
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Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
Thomas Sowell
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
Ian Mckellen