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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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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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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My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.
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The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.
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I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.
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I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
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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.
