It’s easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you’re absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you’re carrying it all. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
What’s nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who’s pleased to see me, and I like that. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don’t need to draw attention to yourself. It’s all laid out for you. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it’s not possible. There’s some god up there saying, ‘You will fail now.’ But I suppose that’s true of us all. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they’re their mates. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
Before I ever acted as an amateur – which I did a great deal at school and at university – I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up… Theater of all sorts. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them… And here I am, still at it. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
