Quotes by Ian Mckellen

Ian Mckellen

[There’s] nothing special about an actor’s imagination, except that he uses it a lot.

Imagination

Special

Use

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different.

Acting

Character

Personality

All other areas of my life, I’m hopeless. I can’t even be certain how to boil an egg.

Certain

Eggs

Hopeless

As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I’ve heard people say that it looks odd, it’s too demanding, there’s too much information, you don’t know where to look.

Looks

People

Too Much Information

Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don’t know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET – which I think is a wonderful adaptation – and he said, “Oh, well we couldn’t have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!” I’ve never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.

Done

Inspiration

Thinking

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: ‘I’m waiting to win the lottery. I’m waiting to fall in love’. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Children

Falling In Love

Winning

I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.

Bullying

Gay

School

I can’t take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I’ll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

Battle

Gay

Worry

I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about – nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don’t want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern – legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.

Atheist

Gay

Impact

I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute – so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

Character

Cute

Play

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Achievement

Acting

Actors

Adventure

Ambition

And Love

Architecture

Atheist

Attitude

Audience

Battle

Bullets

Bullying

Cameras

Careers

Certain

Character

Cheaper

Children

Couple

Cute

Directors

Disclaimers

Done

Earth

Eggs

Energy

Expectations

Falling In Love

Fiction

Film

Gay

Getting Older

Giving

Hard Work

Hollywood

Hopeless

Ideas

Imagination

Impact

Important

Inquiry

Inspiration

Jobs

Knows

Lancashire

Lasts

Latecomers

Long Walks

Looks

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Quotes by Ian Mckellen

Ian Mckellen

[There’s] nothing special about an actor’s imagination, except that he uses it a lot.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different.

All other areas of my life, I’m hopeless. I can’t even be certain how to boil an egg.

As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I’ve heard people say that it looks odd, it’s too demanding, there’s too much information, you don’t know where to look.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: ‘I’m waiting to win the lottery. I’m waiting to fall in love’. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.

I can’t take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I’ll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

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