1. “Success in the movies has pushed me to places I didn’t know I was allowed to go.”
2. “Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone’s aware that the camera doesn’t.”
3. “The press like to talk to actors. They mustn’t be surprised when actors talk back to them.”
4. “That’s the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.”
5. “It is so painful watchful yourself act, particularly because you can’t do anything about it, it’s all done and dusted.”
6. “The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.”
7. “Try to 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.”
8. “The audience’s expectations are ever-present.”
9. “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.”
10. “I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It’s all performance to me.”
11. “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.”
12. “Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.”
13. “No one needs to feel sorry for me or anyone else who has fallen victim to success.”
14. “Acting is no longer about lying. it’s now about revealing the truth. people are at ease with me now. honesty is the best policy.”
15. “Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.”
16. “I’m the sort of person who doesn’t write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.”
17. “I certainly don’t disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine – that’s up to them.”
18. “I’m fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.”
19. “I’ve always ha very catholic tastes.”
20. “My ambition is to get better as an actor.”
21. “Until i came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.”
22. “I’m not quite as cool as I would like to be really.”
23. “I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.”
24. “I ‘ll never put my memoirs in print.”
25. “No actor wants to play to an empty house.”
26. “Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.”
27. “Every time you work is a challenge. There’s a constant worry about it, and it’s a side of acting i don’t like.”
28. “You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older peple.”
29. “Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job, Most films you make don’t get released, is the fact.”
30. “To be allowed for the first time in your career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.”
