Ian Mckellen Quotes

Fame creeps up on you.

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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  • Different
  • Dream

• I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

  

  Fiona Apple
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  • Work
  • Myself

• The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Why
  • You

• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • May
  • You

• If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Woman

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • You
  • Act
  • Personal

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
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• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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• You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
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  • Less

• Value is what you get.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Value
  • Get

• 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.

  

  Harry Caray
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• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
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  • Successful
  • Fame

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
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• Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • You
  • Security
  • Lawyers

• I can't just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids.

  

  Pete Sampras
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• There are different kinds of R&B happening today. There's the traditional, more soulful R&B that doesn't get the recognition that it deserves. Then there's the more hip-hop oriented stuff. You got your boy Ty Dolla $ign, people like that, who are bringing more hip-hop elements to R&B, which is cool.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • People
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  • Today

• Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Me
  • Party
  • Birthday

• Fame creeps up on you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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