Ian Mckellen Quotes

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Ian Mckellen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StarsTheatreYouKnowWhyAudience

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.

Jim Harrison

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I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.

Joe Slovo

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

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Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball.

John Montgomery Ward

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It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

Anderson Cooper

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I used to be terrible and go to bed with my make-up on, and that's just not good for your skin.

Stella Maxwell

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My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

Stan Van Gundy

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Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.

Rod Lurie

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Cricket fans all over the world probably have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens.

Romesh Gunesekera

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Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.

Luke Bryan

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Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

Lori Foster

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Through the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord has established His Church once again among men.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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