Ian Mckellen Quotes
I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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There are networks and executives who are willing to take risks on vastly different material, and as an actor, there are some really juicy roles to sink your teeth into.
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I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
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I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.
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My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.
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I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.
