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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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I've got a waistline to develop.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.
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I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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I'll never put my memoirs in print.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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