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
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.
acted amateur brought deal great north school theater university
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.
regional repertory theaters
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.
awful discovered less rather requiring seeing theater
I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
good roles
I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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.
absolute car case ducks recognized time wears
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.
constant directors offered parts stream
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
organized religion
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
till
I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
home
There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
australian change cost families gain gay government lives married people respect rights therefore worldwide
Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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.