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" Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them. "
Ian Mckellen
You
Freedom
Giving
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" There's no sex in Middle Earth. "
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" I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them. "
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" 'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties. "
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" 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. "
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" I like sleeping a lot. "
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Lot
Sleeping
" Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted. "
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" If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy. "
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" I'll never put my memoirs in print. "
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In Print
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" I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown. "
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Like
Want
Up
" Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth. "
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Truth
Telling The Truth
Out
" 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
" 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. "
Ian Mckellen
Acting
Done
Know
" 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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Acting
Play
Short
" I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm. "
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Live
Drama
Enthusiasm
" I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard. "
Ian Mckellen
Enough
Down
Know
" I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself. "
Ian Mckellen
Born
Honest
Life
" Fame creeps up on you. "
Ian Mckellen
Creeps
Up
You
" There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay. "
Ian Mckellen
Victim
Public
Deaths
" Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job. "
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Rich
Poor
Love
" Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it. "
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My Life
Like
Life
" My ambition is to get better as an actor. "
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Ambition
Better
Get
" Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them. "
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Older
Better
Relationships
" 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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Friend
Life
You
" Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact. "
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You
Fact
Job
" The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears. "
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People
You
America
" I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.' "
Ian Mckellen
Think
Saying
School
" I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around. "
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English
Us
Eccentric
" 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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Saying
You
God
" 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. "
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Prejudice
Old
Numbers
" 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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Brother
Hat
Feet