Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth. - Keanu Reeves
You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing. - Ian McKellen
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay. - Ian McKellen
I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown. - Ian McKellen
I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't. - Ian McKellen
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival. - Ian McKellen
I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. - Ian McKellen
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic. - Ian McKellen
If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint. - Ian McKellen
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy. - Ian McKellen
If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times. - Ian McKellen
If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart. - Ian McKellen
In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom. - Ian McKellen
Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting. - Ian McKellen
Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job. - Ian McKellen
On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact. - Ian McKellen
One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man. - Ian McKellen
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?' - Ian McKellen
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