I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

Try and 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.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

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.

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.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.

Listen to the needs of your spirit and start living your life with purpose

You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

Seek truth from facts.

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.