Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Ian McKellen on Acting and Life




"One of the few things I know my mother said about my acting [she died when he was 12] -- she said it to my aunt -- 'If Ian does become an actor, it's a wonderful job because it brings pleasure to a lot of people.' I was comforted by that. I needed my parents' approval, and in death I had it from her." (The New Yorker, 8/27/7, p. 51)

"We were do-gooders," he said [of his family, "You were here on this earth to leave the world a better place that you found it." (ibid.)

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