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" 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. "

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" I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. "

" 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. "

" I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another. "

" I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate. "

" I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around. "

" Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience. "

" 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. "

" I get pretty grumpy about TV. "

" My friends are my family. "

" When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore. "

" 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. "

" Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it. "

" 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. "

" What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that. "

" 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. "

" I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery. "

" Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it. "

" 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. "

" I'll never put my memoirs in print. "

" If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star. "

" 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. "

" Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. "

" I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm. "

" If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint. "

" 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. "

" Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay. "