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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

In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included. — Ian McLeod

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

It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics. — Ian Millar

The truth was, most people simply weren't worth one's attention. * — Ian C. Esslemont

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly. — Henry Ian Cusick

Cancer gets a bad press but, fair do's, it's a truly egalitarian illness, unlike those stuck-up bastards ME and motor neurone. — Ian Pattison

You're right that it's worthless. All coins are worthless. It's just that some are worth less than others. — Ian C. Esslemont

This guy named Ian that I met at school. He wants to go to the DMV with me."
She hands me a plate to dry. "Well, there's true love."
I snort. — Carrie Jones

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. — Ian McDiarmid

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's. — Ian Thorpe

For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic. — Henry Ian Cusick

I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there."
"You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there. — Jeaniene Frost

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian McEwan

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end. — Ian McEwan

That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am. — Michael Ian Black

It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst. — Ian Fleming

A good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask
but a great friend does it without being asked at all. — Ian Caldwell

Everything I do is metal. When I clean my house, it's metal. — Scott Ian

There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet. — Ian Wace

It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are. — Ian Leslie

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one. — Scott Ian

Anything for Byron's least favorite apprentice. It's the least I can do since you took over my torch. — Rachel E. Carter

Never ask a woman why she's angry at you. She will either get angrier at you for not knowing, or she'll tell you. Both ways, you lose. — Ian Shoales

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. — Ian Jackson

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture. — Michael Ian Black

She said being inside a language was like being in a person's house - after a while you came to see why the teapot was where it was. — Ian Frazier

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off. — Ian Williams

There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car. — Scott Ian

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. — Ian Somerhalder

I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey. — Ian Holloway

Above the rush-hour din it was her ideal self she heard, the pianist she could never become, performing faultlessly Bach's second partita. — Ian McEwan

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well. — Ian McKellen

He's not a bad guy really, except he's so crooked, you shake hands with him you better count your fingers afterwards. — Ian Fleming

As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent. — Ian Beattie

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period. — Scott Ian

POETS day," he reminded Siobhan. "Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday," she recited. — Ian Rankin

It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now. — Ian Anderson

When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun. — Ian Dunbar

Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?'
'It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth. — Ian McEwan

I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything. — Ian McKellen

The final curtain of life's play is dropp'd. — Ian Doescher

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson

That guy should be in porn films." Barclay frowned. "Why's that then, Allan?" Ward looked at him. "Tell me, Tam, when did you last see a bigger prick? — Ian Rankin

If you love someone when you're 20 and you carry that love with you until you're 90, it's not going to be the same dynamic. — Ian Somerhalder

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. — Hailey Giblin

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening ... — Ian McLeod

So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea. — Ian McEwan

But Owen, he hath not a farmer's heart-/
This apple falls quite near his father's tree
- Beru — Ian Doescher

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life. — Thomas Ian Nicholas

Life's a bastard then you die. Then death seems determined to be a bigger bastard by setting demons loose on you. — Ian Atkinson

It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say. — Ian Somerhalder

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect. — Ian Williams

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed. — Ian McEwan

I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law. — Ian Botham

It's shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum's sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush? — Ian McEwan

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!' — Ian Dunbar

Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'. — Ian Fleming

It's another post-EU incongruity. Spas are sissy, indulgent, European. Hamams are authentic and Turkish. — Ian McDonald

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew. — Ian Frazier

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art. — Ian McLeod

The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look. — Ian Christe

The bitch from hell?" Ian offered and immediately moved out of his wife's reach. "She doesn't like me, baby. She calls me Satan. It hurts my feelings. — Lexi Blake

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers. — Janis Ian

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play. — Ian McDiarmid

In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.' — Alan Brazil

Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for. — Ian Hecox

A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge. — Ian Williams

My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth. — Ian Holloway

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours. — W. Ian Thomas

People have always told me I look young for my age ... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself. — Ian Ziering

I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring. — Ian Poulter

A man cannot stand in the shadow of another's greatness and think himself great. He must go out and earn his own greatness- The Reverend — Ian Totten

Who's Evan?" Ian asked.
"Amy's boyfriend!"
"Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend?" Ian probed.
"Since none of your business! — Gordon Korman

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips. — Ian Wright

I am very lucky to be man because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult. — Ian McKellen

I do believe - that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far! Luke (ACT I, Scene 7) — Ian Doescher

Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand — Ian Healy

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

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one's suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things. — Ian C. Esslemont

Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic. — Ian Dury

Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness — Mike England

Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun. — Ian Anderson

It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something. — Ian MacKaye

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground. — Scott Ian

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am. — Janis Ian

It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is. — Ian Millar

If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright. — Robbie Earle

I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that. — Ian McKellen

You greasy shit stain on a diseased elk's warty asshole. — Ian Tregillis

Give as you wish to live, it all come's back to you. And that's without exception ... — Ian Tucker

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die? — Ian McEwan

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here. — Ian Botham

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. — Ian Williams

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection. — Ian Rush

It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now. — Ian McLagan

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads. — Ian MacKaye

A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there's nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope. — Ian Caldwell