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Quakers are terrific.
I like sleeping a lot.
Fame creeps up on you.
I get pretty grumpy about TV.
There's no sex in Middle Earth.
I live for the text. It's my job.
I'll never put my memoirs in print.
I've always had very catholic tastes.
No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
My ambition is to get better as an actor.
'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
No actor wants to play to an empty house.
I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
The audience's expectations are ever-present.
There's something wholesome about the theatre.
My own death threats have declined considerably.
One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.
Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
I think I'm a bit gruffer than I used to be, and I'm certainly older.
It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.
Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay.
The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.