Ian Mckellen Quotes
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.
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I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I organize evenings a.o. with Theo van Doesburg and draw commercial art for newspapers.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. "Legend" means, basically, "bullshit.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
