Ian Mckellen Quotes
I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being. Fuck being an asshole, what you pussies thought it was twenty years ago.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.
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I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.
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I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character.
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I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
