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- I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all…
- When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was…
- If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities…
- Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent…
- 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…
- The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by…
- 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 that's what I've…
- Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's…
- That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not…
- 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…
- 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…
- Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
- Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to…
- I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all…
- 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…
- There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle