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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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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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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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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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
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For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.
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I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
