English - Actor | May 25, 1939 -
There's something wholesome about the theatre.
Ian Mckellen
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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.
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I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
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What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.
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Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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