304 Quotes by Ian Mckellen

There's something wholesome about the theatre.

I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

My own death threats have declined considerably.

I get pretty grumpy about TV.