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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• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

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• Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!

  

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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.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
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• People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

  

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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.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
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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 conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.

  

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• Well, the first thing I can tell you is that I think it was about eight hours in special effects for that whole opening sequence of putting the arm on. Yeah, that was quite an experience. I didn't realize that would turn into such a cult film. Again, you never know. I remember when we did that, the nights in Toronto were very cold. Also, just as it was about to come out, right before the opening, was when that whole Jeffrey Dahmer thing happened. I remember they were thinking about delaying the opening of the film, or at least I heard talks about toning down some of the ads. But it certainly became quite a cult film over the years.

  

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• I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.

  

  Michel Gondry
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• Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

  

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• I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.

  

  Steven Rodney McQueen
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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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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