Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority,… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'.… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
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… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
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… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share
![“I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be…” quote by Ian Mckellen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e27/ian-mckellen-1396_care_i-think-it-s-one-thing-to-declare-your-s_1055264.jpg)
