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Acting Quotes by Ian Mckellen
- 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…
- 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 for…
- I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to…
- Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience…
- Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked…
- I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to…
- When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in…
- I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing…
- Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want…
- Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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