top of page
Quote_1.png
Ian McKellen

"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."

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

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

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

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

Explore more quotes by Ian McKellen

Quote_1.png
Ian McKellen
"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."
Quote_1.png
Ian McKellen
"There's no sex in Middle Earth."
Quote_1.png
Ian McKellen
"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!"
Quote_1.png
Ian McKellen
"I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted."
Quote_1.png
Ian McKellen
"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."
Quote_1.png
Ian McKellen
"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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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?"
Quote_1.png
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. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."
Quote_1.png
Ian McKellen
"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."
bottom of page