Ian Mckellen Quotes
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because it was given to me. Because I bought it somewhere special. Because you will care for it. Because it will complicate your life. Because it will make someone else envious. There is no easy story in legacy. What is remembered and what is forgotten?
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My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.
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I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
