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There are directors, and I th...

There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

The huge difference in my lif...

The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

I think with Shakespeare you ...

I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

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I certainly wouldn't define m...

I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

I can't make up my mind wheth...

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

What's upsetting about an aut...

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

I owe a great deal to Harold ...

I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.

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Most actors are not rich - th...

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

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There is a fantasy as old as ...

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

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I don't think many people wil...

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

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I just followed my parents' e...

I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.

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Fame creeps up on you. ...

Fame creeps up on you.

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Very, very rare that you do a...

Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

There have been many gay knig...

There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

The first film role I deliber...

The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

If you are playing King Lear ...

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 out for you.

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

You won't hear me talk about ...

You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

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You see people in Hollywood t...

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

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It may be my rather puritanic...

It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

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We are very lucky to be men b...

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Ian McKellen 112 quotes

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