304 Quotes by Ian Mckellen

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

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.

The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.

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 often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.