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" I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common. "

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" I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job. "

" There are some fantastic parts for older actors. "

" When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much. "

" 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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Turn

Wonderful

" The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that. "

" 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. "

" I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about. "

" My friends are my family. "

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Friends

Family

" People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?' "

" The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them. "

" 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

Road

" When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing. "

" I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.' "

" I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay. "

" I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown. "

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Want

" Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature. "

" In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers. "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

" I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival. "

" 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. "

" There's something wholesome about the theatre. "

" If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied. "