I’d never read ‘Lord of the Rings’ until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn’t really know it was a frightfully famous book. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What’s upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don’t you? Ian Mckellen Read Quote
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 – 1976) lived and painted. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison? Ian Mckellen Read Quote
The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
I used to think ‘King Lear’ was an analysis of insanity, but I don’t really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
