Ian Mckellen Quotes
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.
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Do one thing today that scares you - and you already know what that is! - and go do it. Even if you just make one step toward it, it will help you look at the world differently.
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The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
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My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
