"I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else."

Actor, Being, Gay, Talk

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else."

Exlpore more Actor quotes

"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

Actor, Job, Nothing

"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

Marie Windsor, American Actress

Actor, Actors

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Actor,

"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

Actor, American

"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."

Kenneth Branagh, Irish Actor

Actor, Actors, Language, Shakespeare

"When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world."

Bruce Dern, American Actor

Actor, Dying, Right, World

"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."

Harry Hamlin, American Actor

Actor, Mind

"You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors."

Derek Jacobi, British Actor

Actor, Actors, Climate, Clothes, Help

"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."

Nicole Sullivan, American Actress

Actor,

"I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor."

Roger Moore, English Actor

Actor, Being

Explore more quotes by Ian McKellen

"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."

Life, Love, Christmas, Waiting

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

Road,

"I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!"

Brother, Feet, Help

"I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else."

Actor, Being, Gay, Talk

"I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things."

People, Being, Parliament, Population

"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."

Time, Death, Life, End

"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."

Acting, Audiences, Play, Popular

"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."

Life, Energy, Right

"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. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."

Management, Performance, Audiences, Judgment

"There's no sex in Middle Earth."

Sex, Earth