Author Profile
Ian Mckellen
1939 • English • Actor
70
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 70 quotesI love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.— Ian Mckellen
I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.— Ian Mckellen
I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.— Ian Mckellen
That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.— Ian Mckellen
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.— Ian Mckellen
I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.— Ian Mckellen
The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.— Ian Mckellen
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.— Ian Mckellen
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
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
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.— Ian Mckellen