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
desperate films job
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
job
It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
jobs play film
Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"
jobs next directors
When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.
jobs attitude play
I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.
bring celebrate family marry
Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
home
There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
john knights sir
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
although longer theater
I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.
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.
One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
No actor wants to play to an empty house.
films watch
If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.