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" I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown. "
Ian Mckellen
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" Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic. "
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" I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing. "
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" If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart. "
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" There's something wholesome about the theatre. "
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" 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. "
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" The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting. "
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" Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane. "
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White
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" In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom. "
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Done
Work
Classroom
" If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that? "
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Why
" 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. "
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God
" I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another. "
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" We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you. "
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You
Choose
Done
" Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played. "
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Every
Die
Before
" Quakers are terrific. "
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Quakers
Terrific
" When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like. "
Ian Mckellen
Year
Never
Old
" I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls. "
Ian Mckellen
Boys And Girls
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Fans
" My own death threats have declined considerably. "
Ian Mckellen
Death
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Threats
" I'll never put my memoirs in print. "
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In Print
Put
Print
" 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
" When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers. "
Ian Mckellen
Work
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Me
" When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much. "
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Street
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Enjoyed
" I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted. "
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Down
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Up
" You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people. "
Ian Mckellen
Young
Older
Young People
" I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached. "
Ian Mckellen
Heat
Cooking
Consistency
" Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one. "
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" Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. "
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Life
You
" You mustn't upstage the bride. "
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Bride
You
" I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen. "
Ian Mckellen
Take
Normally
" I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being. "
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Acting
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" I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else. "
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