Ian Mckellen Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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 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

• Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.

  Ian Mckellen

  Sorry, Character, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

  Ian Mckellen

  Character, Gay, Old Fashioned

  Source: collider.com

• If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

  Ian Mckellen

  Character, Vices, Directors

  "At 76, Actor Ian McKellen Embodies An Older Sherlock In 'Mr. Holmes'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 20, 2015.

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