Ian Mckellen Quotes
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
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If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.
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I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.
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Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
