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Ian McKellen

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.

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I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

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To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

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I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay.

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I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

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

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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.