Ian Mckellen Quotes

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

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• Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

  

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• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

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• Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

  

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• I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

  

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• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

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• We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

  

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• Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • Lord
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