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
Ian Mckellen quotes about
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.
relationships sort
Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
bullies discussion homophobic issues playground stopping unbiased work
In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
till
I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
less likely millions recognized
If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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.
younger
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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.
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.
chose raging
The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
challenged great join joys life playing seeing
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
john knights sir
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
old-friends unseen architecture
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.
couple responsibility gay
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.