Ian Mckellen Quotes
When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
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I respect Lady Gaga very much.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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I have a very small public.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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I am very blessed.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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Guys are very simple.
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When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
