Ian Mckellen Quotes
I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
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Maybe one small regret is that I never got to play with Paul Scholes - but I was never going to leave Barcelona and he was never going to leave Manchester United.
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I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.
