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.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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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.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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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.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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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.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.
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The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
