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.
Quotes to Explore
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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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.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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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.
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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.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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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.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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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.
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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.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
