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" 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. "

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

" There's no sex in Middle Earth. "

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

" Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it. "

" 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. "

" When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it. "

" Who does understand life? "

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

" Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison? "

" I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around. "

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

" The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living. "

" The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I like sleeping a lot. "

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" 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? "

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

Telling The Truth

" Fame creeps up on you. "

" 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. "

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

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