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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Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I should be alright.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.
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Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy....
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I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.
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I get pretty grumpy about TV.
