Top 187 Quotes by Ian Mckellen

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

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

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

I've got a waistline to develop.

There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

Quakers are terrific.

When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.