Ian Mckellen Quotes
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
Quotes to Explore
-
I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
-
In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
-
I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'
-
The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
-
It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
-
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
-
I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
-
You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
-
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
-
I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
-
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
-
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-
'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
-
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
-
I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
-
I have always liked a challenge.
-
I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
-
E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
-
Scotland is the Canada of England!
-
The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.
-
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
-
When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
-
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
-
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
