Ian Mckellen Quotes
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When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.
— Ian McKellen
My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.
— Ian McKellen
I've got a waistline to develop.
— Ian McKellen
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
— Ian McKellen
There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
— Ian McKellen
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
— Ian McKellen
If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
— Ian McKellen
The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.
— Ian McKellen
I'll never put my memoirs in print.
— Ian McKellen
I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
— Ian McKellen
I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
— Ian McKellen
Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.
— Ian McKellen
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[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.
— Ian McKellen
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
— Ian McKellen
When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
— Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
— Brendan Fraser
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
— Ian McKellen
When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
— Ian McKellen
I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
— Ian McKellen
On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
— Ian McKellen
I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
— Ian McKellen
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 book.
— Ian McKellen
I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
— Ian McKellen
I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
— Ian McKellen
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend ... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
— Ian McKellen
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
— Ian McKellen
No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
— Ian McKellen
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
— Ian McKellen
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
— Ian McKellen
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
— Ian McKellen
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
— Ian McKellen
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
— Ian McKellen
Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
— Ian McKellen
Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"
— Ian McKellen
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
— Ian McKellen
I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
— Ian McKellen
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
— Ian McKellen
If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
— Ian McKellen
I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
— Ian McKellen
All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.
— Ian McKellen
One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
— Ian McKellen
I live for the text. It's my job.
— Ian McKellen
Who does understand life?
— Ian McKellen
My friends are my family.
— Ian McKellen
Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.
— Ian McKellen
Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.
— Ian McKellen
I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
— Ian McKellen
I am very lucky to be man because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
— Ian McKellen
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
— Ian McKellen
I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.
— Ian McKellen
I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
— Ian McKellen
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 say them.
— Ian McKellen
Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
— Ian McKellen
I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
— Ian McKellen
I like sleeping a lot.
— Ian McKellen
Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
— Ian McKellen
My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
— Ian McKellen
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
— Ian McKellen
There's something wholesome about the theatre.
— Ian McKellen
The audience's expectations are ever-present.
— Ian McKellen
I love working in New York.
— Ian McKellen
'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
— Ian McKellen
You mustn't upstage the bride.
— Ian McKellen
'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
— Ian McKellen
