Ian Mckellen Quotes

There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Work
  • Internet
  • Movement

• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Failure

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Sex
  • Beauty

• I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

  

  Kaki King
  • Different
  • Single
  • Simple

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Feeling
  • Financial
  • Independence

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Human
  • Urban
  • Wildlife

• We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Pretty
  • Opinion

• Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Boy
  • Look
  • Tough

• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Lead

• TV isn't a wide medium when it comes to boldness on the small screen because of the audience. It reaches out to the audience but keeping the traditions intact.

  

  Nia Sharma
  • Small

• I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Play

• I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Trust
  • Here
  • Phone

• I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

  

  Paul Verhoeven

• There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Giving