Ian Mckellen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
-
Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
-
While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
-
Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.
-
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
-
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
-
I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
-
We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
-
A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
-
Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
-
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
-
People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
-
I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
-
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
-
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
-
Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
-
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
-
Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.
-
When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
-
The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
-
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
-
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
-
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
