Ian Mckellen Quotes

Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.

Ian Mckellen

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• Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Control
  • Person
  • Situation

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • World
  • Different
  • Cool

• I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Job
  • Hand

• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Think
  • Him
  • Upset

• Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Everybody
  • Idiosyncrasies

• I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
  • Asian

• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Discipline

• I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Life
  • Heart

• How deepe do we dig, and for how coarse gold?

  

  John Donne
  • Gold

• There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He’s very, very subtle and nuanced. It’s very much in the eyes. That’s how it is in real life. He’s such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.

  

  Alison Lohman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Great
  • History
  • Future

• Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Culture
  • Intelligent
  • Involved