Ian Mckellen Quotes
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
Quotes to Explore
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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If there is one thing I am, it's always right.
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I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
