“I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before -...” — Ian Mckellen Quote

“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.”

“Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.”

“I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.”

“I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!”

“There's an awful pressure on signed artists to make a hit song. But I never wanted to be an artist who created music to sell - I wanted to create music that felt like art to me.”

“I get one horrible comment very rarely, and I wouldn't say I'm a victim of awful, constant trolling like a lot of people are in the industry.”