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When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

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

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I've got a waistline to develop.

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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

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I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

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I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

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When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.

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No actor wants to play to an empty house.

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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: May 25th, 1939

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