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" Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic. "
Ian Mckellen
Some
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Doing
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" 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. "
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" There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people. "
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" Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like. "
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" Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it. "
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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. "
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" Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact. "
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" What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that. "
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" Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family? "
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Celebrate
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" I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job. "
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" How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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Great
Drama
" 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. "
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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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Car
Someone
" There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud. "
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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. "
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" I like sleeping a lot. "
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Lot
Sleeping
" Quakers are terrific. "
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Quakers
Terrific
" If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you. "
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" Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying. "
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" 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. "
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" We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you. "
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" Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene. "
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" There's something wholesome about the theatre. "
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" 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. "
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" 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!' "
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" I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.' "
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