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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter. "

" Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well. "

" There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay. "

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

" Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while. "

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

" I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" No actor wants to play to an empty house. "

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

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

" There's something wholesome about the theatre. "

" 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. "

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

Telling The Truth

" I've got a waistline to develop. "

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

" When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers. "

" Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out. "

" I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them. "

" Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic. "

" 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. "

" Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different. "