Ian Mckellen

No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

— Ian Mckellen

I've got a waistline to develop.

— Ian Mckellen

My friends are my family.

— Ian Mckellen

Who does understand life?

— Ian Mckellen

I live for the text. It's my job.

— Ian Mckellen

'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.

— Ian Mckellen

I'll never put my memoirs in print.

— Ian Mckellen

I like sleeping a lot.

— Ian Mckellen

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

— Ian Mckellen

There are some fantastic parts for older actors.

— Ian Mckellen

You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.

— Ian Mckellen

I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

— Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

— Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

— Ian Mckellen

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

— Ian Mckellen

One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.

— Ian Mckellen

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

— Ian Mckellen

I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's…

— Ian Mckellen

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

— Ian Mckellen

2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you…

— Ian Mckellen

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

— Ian Mckellen

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay…

— Ian Mckellen

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

— Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here…

— Ian Mckellen

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day…

— Ian Mckellen

The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do…

— Ian Mckellen

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And…

— Ian Mckellen

You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see…

— Ian Mckellen

There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm…

— Ian Mckellen

I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also…

— Ian Mckellen

I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know,…

— Ian Mckellen

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed…

— Ian Mckellen

I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only…

— Ian Mckellen

Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that…

— Ian Mckellen

Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I…

— Ian Mckellen

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

— Ian Mckellen

You mustn't upstage the bride.

— Ian Mckellen

My ambition is to get better as an actor.

— Ian Mckellen

No actor wants to play to an empty house.

— Ian Mckellen

I've always had very catholic tastes.

— Ian Mckellen