Ian Mckellen Quotes
I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.
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I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.
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I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
