Ian Mckellen Quotes
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
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To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.
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I never want to lose the audience's attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
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I get pretty grumpy about TV.
