Ian Mckellen Quotes
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
-
Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
-
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
-
Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
-
My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
-
One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
-
You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
-
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
-
I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
-
You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
-
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
-
To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
-
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
-
'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
-
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
-
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
-
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
-
I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
-
This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out.
-
My Aunt Sheila was terrifying! She would put a napkin in her mouth and say, 'You've got something on your face, dear. Let me just scratch that off your face. Let me sand your cheek.'
-
My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
-
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
-
I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
-
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
