The best Quotes by Ian Mckellen

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

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Do you know who you are? You're the only person on this planet who makes me feel that I'm not alone.

Betty McLeish in The Good Liar

In just a blink, your life is changed forever.

Roy Courtnay in The Good Liar

Steven: "Seems like you've had quite a past, Roy."
Roy Courtnay: "Enough to last several lifetimes."

Roy Courtnay in The Good Liar

Betty McLeish: "So tell me, have you done this a lot? Met people on the computer service? Don't you find it's always the same?"
Roy Courtnay: "You mean the anticipation, followed by the letdown?"

Roy Courtnay in The Good Liar

Singles & Dating

Vincent: "How much do you think she's worth?"
Roy Courtnay: "Nearly three million pounds."
Vincent: "Are you going to take the lot?"
Roy Courtnay: "You bloody bet I'm going to take it all."

Roy Courtnay in The Good Liar

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Courage

So do all who live to see such times; but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you.

Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Hobbits & Harfoots

And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Small Things

Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Bilbo Baggins

Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Dreaming Vision

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Change Wind Deserts

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say!

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Heart

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Romantic Quotes

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Getting up

Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

William Shakespeare in Richard II

Words

I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

Kurt Cobain

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Homophobia

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

Laughing & Smile

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

Fear

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

Men & Women

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

Books Reading

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

Thinking Feelings & Emotions

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

Life Desire

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

Failures & Mistakes

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

The Kardashians

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Al Pacino

Heart Eyes

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

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