Ian Mckellen Quotes
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I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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My friends are my family.
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There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
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I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.
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There's something wholesome about the theatre.
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Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
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I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
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Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.
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I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
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I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
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Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
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The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
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I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.
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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
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My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.