Ian Mckellen Quotes
We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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When women told me they'd always wished they had a sister, they were thinking of this ideal of mutual encouragement and support. Many of those who have sisters also yearn for this ideal because their relationships with their sisters don't always live up to it.
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It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
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You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
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It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.
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I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.
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We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
