Ian Mckellen Quotes
I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.
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I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
