Ian Mckellen Quotes

I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • You
  • Nothing

• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Independent
  • Push

• The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Time
  • Best
  • Trust

• Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Home
  • Become
  • Away

• Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Pretty
  • Way
  • Look

• I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Dream
  • Lost
  • Fight

• Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Up
  • Book
  • Paris

• What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • Long
  • Children
  • Done

• Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Way
  • Always
  • First Love

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Period
  • Teen
  • Intense

• I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Always
  • Luck

• I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Job
  • Best

• I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Health care
  • Nurse

• As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Positive
  • End

• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Honor
  • Dangerous
  • Himself

• Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Women
  • Experience

• If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Like
  • Hearing

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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