Quotes from Sir Ian McKellen.

[hickman]

"I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they (my significant others) don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as ... with me."

"I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors."

"I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.


This guy cracks me up.

edit because the (...) in the first quote didn't show up for some reason.

[terrya]

1. LOL - love the second quote

And that is so, so true...gosh, being an openly gay actor is TOUGH...2 Academy Award nominations, starring in 2 very profitable movie trilogies ("Lord of the Rings" and the three "X-Men" films). One wishes that other closeted gay actors in Hollywood would realize that it's not a career killer to be openly gay as an actor.

[hickman]

2. This man needs to write a book.

If he ever gets the time.