Ian Mckellen Quotes
I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.
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With Submarine, when I came out of school, people were so lovely and supportive. And you don't get that experience very often. It felt like a family on-set. So Submarine changed so much for me.
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You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.
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I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
