"It's a joy to be up close to……" — Ian Mckellen
"It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances."
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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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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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