Ian Mckellen Quotes
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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I get pretty grumpy about TV.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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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.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.