You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
From Ian Mckellen
I'll never put my memoirs in print.
Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
There's something wholesome about the theatre.
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
'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.
Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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.
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