Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?' "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that. "

" My friends are my family. "

" It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do. "

" Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them. "

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

" I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached. "

" To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about. "

" 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. "

" I've always had very catholic tastes. "

" I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can. "

" It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need? "

" One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine. "

" 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. "

" There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people. "

" There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!' "

" Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel. "

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

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

" My ambition is to get better as an actor. "

" Who does understand life? "