Ian Mckellen Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

  Ian Mckellen

  Real, Acting, Way

  "Interview with Sir Ian McKellen (Part 1 of 4)". Interview with BY Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 10, 2000.

• My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

  Ian Mckellen

  Careers, Acting, Cameras

• Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

  Ian Mckellen

  Character, Personality, Acting

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 10, 2000.

• I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

  Ian Mckellen

  Drama, School, Thinking

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 10, 2000.

• Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

  Ian Mckellen

  Believe, Ideas, People

  "Interview with Sir Ian McKellen (Part 1 of 4)". Interview with BY Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 10, 2000.

• I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

  Ian Mckellen

  Cute, Character, Play

• Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Adventure, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  Ian Mckellen

  Play, Comedian, Acting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

  Ian Mckellen

  Wish, Acting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

• For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.

  Ian Mckellen

  Kids, Acting, Actors

• Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

  Ian Mckellen

  Honesty, Lying, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

  Ian Mckellen

  Play, Acting, Want

• I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  Ian Mckellen

  Play, Long, House

  "Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot". Interview with Dominic Cavendish, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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