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One Quotes by Ian Mckellen
- Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even…
- 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…
- I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and…
- Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him…
- On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went…
- 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 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…
- When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still…
- One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
- No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
- 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…
- I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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