Quotes About Ian Mckellen

“Hey Atticus, do me a quick favour before we go? its easy.
Sure. What is it?
Hold Granuailes staff for just a minute. You know, rest it on the ground so that its like a walking stick or something and the top of it is near your right cheek.
Granuaile and I traded weapons to humor him and I stood as instructed.
Thats perfect! Now say this like Sir Ian McKellen I am Atticus the White, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.”

— Kevin Hearne

“Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.”

— Jason Clarke

“It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.”

— Adam Brown

“I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.”

— Shawn Ashmore

“I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.”

— Tom Hiddleston

“Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.”

— Tom Hiddleston

“Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.”

— Dawn French

“It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning.”

— William Kircher

“I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.”

— Anthony Hopkins

“I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.”

— Brendan Fraser

“Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.”

— Brendan Fraser

“When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.”

— Luke Evans

“Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.”

— Francesca Annis

“Soon after I'd had my son I really wasn't planning on going back to work for a while. I will walk over hot coals to work with Bill Condon on anything, the experience that you have with him is just too good.I've certainly never worked with him before so the trio of Bill [Codon], Ian [ McKellen], and Sherlock Holmes, and England: it was too much to say "no" to.”

— Laura Linney

“When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.”

— Edward Norton