Dickens Quote by Ian Mckellen Download Open image “Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.” — Ian Mckellen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dickens Good Scene Sketching Tolkien
I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien. — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
“No ideologues, not even religious ones, are going to be happy with Tolkien, unless they manage it by misreading him. For like all great… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I think Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens have very carefully plotted 'The Hobbit' out so that it does feel like the starting point for… — Lee Pace Copy Share Image
“On Tolkien: "His fussiness threatened to overwhelm his creativity.” — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything -… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“The Lord of the Rings is a million times more interesting than mere literature, which is why mere literary critics cannot get to grips… — Robert McNeil Copy Share Image
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
This might disappoint you somewhat, but I have to say my interest in Tolkien has faded dramatically over the years. His language skills are… — Varg Vikernes 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
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic,… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“As I know only too well, anticipation od happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Even during the first months of my… — Gaynor Arnold Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw. — Dazzy Vance Copy Share Image
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl. — Paul Rhys Copy Share Image
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
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