Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
From Ian Mckellen
I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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.
'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
I live for the text. It's my job.
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