Quotes by Ian Mckellen

About Ian Mckellen:

Sir Ian Murray McKellen is an English actor. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and two Critics' Choice Awards. He has also received two Academy Award nominations, four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations. McKellen's work spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. His film roles include Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and Magneto in the X-Men films.
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I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

Ian Mckellen

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 ...

Ian Mckellen

I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

Ian Mckellen

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

Ian Mckellen

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

Ian Mckellen

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.

Ian Mckellen

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

Ian Mckellen

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?

Ian Mckellen

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Au...

Ian Mckellen

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

Ian Mckellen

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

Ian Mckellen

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.

Ian Mckellen

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

Ian Mckellen

My friends are my family.

Ian Mckellen

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

Ian Mckellen

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 ...

Ian Mckellen

I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

Ian Mckellen

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Ian Mckellen

I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

Ian Mckellen

Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of ...

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Author Bio

  • NameIan Mckellen
  • DescriptionBritish actor
  • BornMay 25, 1939
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Donostia Award; Annie Award