Ian Mckellen Quotes

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

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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

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• Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

  

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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.

  

  Walt Handelsman
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• I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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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.

  

  Barbara Palvin
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• Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

  

  Zach Cregger
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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.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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• I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
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• Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
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• What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• I like writing about biology, not doing it.

  

  Kary Mullis
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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.

  

  Jack Lowden
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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.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
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• I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

  

  Larry David
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• You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

  

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• Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

  

  Victoria Wood
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• A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

  

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• An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

  

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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
  • Rings