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

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" I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing. "

" Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book. "

" Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay. "

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

" There's something wholesome about the theatre. "

" If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy. "

" 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 don't normally take to Yorkshiremen. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it. "

" I get pretty grumpy about TV. "

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

" I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.' "

" Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene. "

" I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm. "

" I live for the text. It's my job. "

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

" I love working in New York. "

" It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose. "

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

" My friends are my family. "

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