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" '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. "

" The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo. "

" I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round. "

" Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts. "

" You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in. "

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

" Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job. "

" 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. "

" I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time. "

" 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. "

" There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that. "

" 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. "

" When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like. "

" One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man. "

" 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. "

" I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy. "

" It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation. "

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

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

" I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out. "

" 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. "

" I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?' "

" The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference. "

" 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. "

" There's something wholesome about the theatre. "

" You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues. "

" Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do. "

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

" You mustn't upstage the bride. "

" Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth. "

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