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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. "
Dog
Human
Always
" Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different. "
Personality
Character
You
" Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that. "
Took
Me
Remember
" Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me. "
Who
Me
Happened
" 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. "
Know
Integrity
Him
" Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while. "
Business
Hope
Think
" 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. "
Believe
Chef
Me
" Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts. "
Born
Parents
Great
" Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved. "
New
Intelligent
I Am
" Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts. "
School
Great
Arts
" Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them. "
You
Freedom
Giving
" Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic. "
Some
Got
Doing
" 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. "
People
Gay
Government
" Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay. "
Romantic
Young
Best
" Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played. "
Every
Die
Before
" Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel. "
Church
License
Thug
" Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like. "
You
Worry
Time
" Fame creeps up on you. "
Creeps
Up
You
" Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it. "
My Life
Like
Life
" Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter. "
Keep
Serious
Eye
" Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it. "
Fun
Guy
Good
" Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really. "
World
Soul
Really
" 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. "
White
More
Job
" Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came. "
Win
Fall
Life
" How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play. "
Play
Well
Act
" I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that. "
Exercise
Live
Stairs
" 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. "
I Am
Temptation
You
" 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. "
Acting
Done
Know
" I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown. "
Like
Want
Up
" 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. "
Gay
I Can
Know
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