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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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
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I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
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Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
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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.
