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" I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements. "

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

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

" There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage. "

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" Quakers are terrific. "

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" 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. "

" I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls. "

" 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. "

" I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can. "

" 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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" What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you? "

" I like sleeping a lot. "

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" I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. "

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" I love working in New York. "

" 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. "

" The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie. "

" The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry. "

" You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people. "

" 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 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. "

" That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians. "

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

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