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| Ian McKellen quotes |
| "I was suggesting to Peter he should insert some love interest for Gandalf in a later one. He suggested Galadriel... I said, no, I was thinking more of someone like Legolas." On his first theatre experience, "Peter Pan": "I wasn't over-impressed. For one thing it wasn't a real crocodile and I could see the wires". "I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as ... with me." "Well here I am, in Middle Earth, having just arrived from England, via Los Angeles! Ya know, Gandalf sure gets around!" "I am encouraged by the theatricality of Tolkien's readings - full of rhythm and humour and characterisation. Without question Gandalf is like Tolkien but then so, I suspected, are Frodo and Aragorn." "I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors." "I ... think of the Bible as great literature rather than great history; great imagination rather than reliable witness. Whatever, it is not as a law book that I respect the Bible." "Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy." "The Lord of the Rings is a mythology, it is a fairy tale, it's an adventure story. It never happened. Except somewhere in our hearts." "When I, as Gandalf, meet Bilbo or Frodo at home, I bump my head on the rafters. Tolkien didn't think to mention it." "Many unthinking people just don't like the idea of gays joining in their games, nor in the military and, it would seem, in the movies." "This is one of the most successful films of all time, and I'm in the middle of it. I Know, why me? I think it's because I'm cheaper than other actors of my experience." |
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