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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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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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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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
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Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings.
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When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.
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I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married.
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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.
