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Actor Quotes by Ian Mckellen
- There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that…
- In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's…
- It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult…
- I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- My ambition is to get better as an actor.
- I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it…
- No actor wants to play to an empty house.
- There are some fantastic parts for older actors.
- Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
- The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres…
- Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone…
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