Ian Mckellen Quotes
I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.
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I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
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When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
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Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.
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I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.
