Ian Mckellen Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
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Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
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I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
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Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.
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My friends are my family.
