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.

Ian Mckellen
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never... - W.b. Yeats

  2. This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. - Alan W. Watts

  3. Life is more fun if you play games. - Roald Dahl

  4. Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. - Louisa May Alcott

  5. Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus

More Quotes By Ian Mckellen
  1. I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

  2. I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  3. I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

  4. Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

  5. I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

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