Ian Mckellen Quotes

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

Ian Mckellen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

Andy Grammer

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I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

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Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

Stephen M. Walt

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A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

Monica Johnson

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I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

Jose Mourinho

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One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

Jose Marti

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I couldn't believe I was in the big leagues. I also knew that I have to work hard every single day to stay in the big leagues. One thing is getting to the big leagues; another thing is to stay.

Jose Altuve

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Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

Johnny Mercer

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The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features.

Doug Liman

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I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Brian May

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For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, 'Oh well. Christmas albums don't sell,' and things like that. But that's not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important.

Aretha Franklin

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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Arne Jacobsen

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