Ian Mckellen Quotes
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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Books and people are hard to compare.
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I was a member of the VHS generation. I used to study movies as a kid because I had a VCR and could record a movie on HBO and just watch it repeatedly.
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On my first flight, I don't know if maybe it's a function of time, or if I was less stressed on my second flight, but just being able to tell what part of the planet we were flying over by the reflected light coming through the window - that was pretty special.
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Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.
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I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
