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" Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing. "
Ian Mckellen
Dog
Human
Always
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" I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it. "
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Problem
" What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you? "
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Want
Always
Mean
" 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! "
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Feet
" I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round. "
Ian Mckellen
Time
Chance
Makeup
" Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison? "
Ian Mckellen
Gender
Prison
Trying
" I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them. "
Ian Mckellen
Different
Mine
Someone
" There's something wholesome about the theatre. "
Ian Mckellen
Theatre
About
Wholesome
" There are some fantastic parts for older actors. "
Ian Mckellen
Older
Some
Fantastic
" Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that. "
Ian Mckellen
Took
Me
Remember
" The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with. "
Ian Mckellen
Age
Old
Old Age
" You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all. "
Ian Mckellen
Saying
You
God
" My own death threats have declined considerably. "
Ian Mckellen
Death
Own
Threats
" 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. "
Ian Mckellen
You
Way
Theatre
" My ambition is to get better as an actor. "
Ian Mckellen
Ambition
Better
Get
" I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims. "
Ian Mckellen
See
Treat
Me
" Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. "
Ian Mckellen
Friend
Life
You
" Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole. "
Ian Mckellen
People
Gay
Government
" I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. "
Ian Mckellen
Me
Performance
Ballet
" If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star. "
Ian Mckellen
Difficult
Off
Guess
" I like sleeping a lot. "
Ian Mckellen
Like
Lot
Sleeping
" There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!' "
Ian Mckellen
Special
Work
Know
" I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job. "
Ian Mckellen
Job
Come
Comics
" I get pretty grumpy about TV. "
Ian Mckellen
Get
About
TV
" Who does understand life? "
Ian Mckellen
Life
Does
Who
" If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times. "
Ian Mckellen
Fact
Got
Now
" '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. "
Ian Mckellen
My Life
Seeing
Mean
" People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?' "
Ian Mckellen
Look
People
Say
" My friends are my family. "
Ian Mckellen
Friends
Family
" I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should. "
Ian Mckellen
I Am
Temptation
You
" The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living. "
Ian Mckellen
Strength
Theatre
Rich