Ian Mckellen Quotes

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Evolve

• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Job
  • Play
  • Thought

• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Think
  • Man

• This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.

  

  Ma Long
  • Good
  • Career
  • Professional

• One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Things
  • Big
  • Activity

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Me

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Leader
  • Evidence
  • Conspiracy

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Admire

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Model

• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Job
  • History

• Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Study

• If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

  

  Ellen Muth
  • Writing

• The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

  

  John Lawson
  • Life
  • Live

• Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Power
  • Love Is

• If you're in a job that you hate, don't be scared of seeking out something that might be riskier. Anything can turn into something with passion and hard work.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hate

• Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Job
  • Rich