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 Copy Share Image
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you? — 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
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 Copy Share Image
It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director -… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: Be honest with each other. Admit there… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth.… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that… — 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… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
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… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti),… — 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 Image
It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
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 Image
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
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 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 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/quotes/img-quotes/e27/ian-mckellen-1396_care_i-think-it-s-one-thing-to-declare-your-s_1055264.jpg)
