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" 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. "

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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. "

" I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them. "

" 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. "

" What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere. "

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

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

" On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact. "

" 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. "

" You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever. "

" 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. "

" 'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties. "

" 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?' "

" I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything. "

" Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work. "

" Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family? "

" I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted. "

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

" 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 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. "

" In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself. "

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

" 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. "

" When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that? "

" Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them. "

" There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud. "

" 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. "