"Before I ever acted as an amateur -……" — Ian Mckellen
"Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts."
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103 Quotes by Ian Mckellen
Ian Mckellen has 103 quotes on this site.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped…
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I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
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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…
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Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production…
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of…
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but…
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When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it…
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I…
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In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't…
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It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his…
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If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: Be honest with each other.…
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how…
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I acted in millions of TV shows.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake…
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
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I've acted professionally since I was 16.
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it…
— Giacomo Casanova
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
— Salman Rushdie
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