Ian Mckellen Quotes

Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

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• I have worked with some great directors.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Great
  • Directors
  • Some

• And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Grow
  • Dawn

• That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Better
  • Everyone

• American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • Band
  • Brilliant

• I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feel

• Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Year

• I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Focus

• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Gender

• I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Today
  • You
  • Where

• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Movies
  • Right
  • Thing

• It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Interesting

• Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Medical
  • Bankruptcy

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Film
  • Stars

• We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Like
  • Youth
  • Noise

• It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Great
  • Fall In Love

• My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Family
  • Ancestors
  • Royal

• My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.

  

  George Clooney
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Risk

• To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.

  

  David Rees
  • People
  • Enough
  • Human

• Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Dog
  • Human
  • Acting