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 am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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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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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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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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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Alan Cumming was such a fun guy to watch. I remember he has a song in the first 'Spy Kids' movie, and when Danny Elfman came to set, they were working on the song.
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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.
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Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
