Ian Mckellen Quotes

I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

Ian Mckellen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 25, 1939

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I'm just trying to avoid any future surgery. I'm just trying to stand up straighter. And the hip and back are better.

Jim Irsay

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It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.

Robert Scoble

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As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

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If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.

Mattie Stepanek

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For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.

Sue Wicks

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Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Trent Lott

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Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

Toni Morrison

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Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

Rob Walton

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I don't think I've ever had a conversation with a comedian who stole except for when it's been in anger.

Matt Besser

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A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

Rosemary Mahoney

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I'm still not entirely sure how 'Pretty Girl' blew up the way it did. It wasn't really meant to. The song was originally meant for a compilation tape for a magazine called 'The Le Sigh', and I made the video in about 30 minutes.

Clairo

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I have a lot to be grateful for.

Annie Lennox

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