Ian Mckellen Quotes
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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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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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I love working in New York.
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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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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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There are some fantastic parts for older actors.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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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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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
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I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
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If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
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I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
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On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.