"Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching…" — Ian Mckellen
"Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene."
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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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More Dickens Quotes
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one of 118 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
— Alan Bennett
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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as…
— Danny Boyle
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in…
— Maya Angelou
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
— William Shakespeare
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
— David McCullough
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I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of…
— Michael Jackson
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick…
— Bob Dylan
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is…
— John Berger
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
— Donna Tartt
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