Ian Mckellen Quotes
My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
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I am a Buddhist.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
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I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.
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On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.
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I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
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My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
