Ian Mckellen Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Ian Mckellen quotes and sayings page 7 (85 year old actor). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 125 we have for him.
“If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.”
“It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.”
“The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.”
“There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.”
“When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.”
“'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.”
“Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.”
“Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.”
“Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.”
“Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.”
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