Ian Mckellen Quotes
If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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Many are called but few get up.
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Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another.
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I mention I'm going home, and I'm a star immediately! This used to happen with my boyfriends - as soon as I'd say, 'I gotta go home now,' they fell in love.
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I have trouble keeping plants alive. Even plastic ones.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
