Ian Mckellen
Ian Mckellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBEis an English actor. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and two Critics' Choice Awards. He has also received two Academy Award nominations, four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 May 1939
CityBurnley, England
One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
No actor wants to play to an empty house.
saving time
'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
clearly invited members pupils school staff
One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
enjoyed people seen work
There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'
'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
nature society thrust wants
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
anyone hearing imagine love modern positively public talk trying
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?
chance invariably order putting routines time
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
peter
If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
bring celebrate family marry
Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
younger
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
british oscars point truth
The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.