Sir Ian McKellen movie quotes

“From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak I fought with the Balrog of Morgoth until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountain side. Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time. The stars wheeled overhead, and every day was as long as a life age of the earth... But it was not the end. I felt life in me...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“Are you a God-fearing man? That is such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher; a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto

“- Gandalf: Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master!
- Witchking: Do you not know death when you see it, old man? This is my hour!”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf
Lawrence Makoare - Witchking

“- Frodo: What news of the outside world? Tell me everything.
- Gandalf: Everything? You are far too eager and curious for a Hobbit. Most unnatural.”
Elijah Wood - Frodo
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto

“When you're a detective and a man comes to see you, it's usually about his wife.”

Milo Parker - Roger
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“I spat at God once. Never again.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Tsar Nicholas II

“A man abandoned his family and wrote his son a story. He wouldn't be the first to cloak his cowardice in a flag of sacrifice.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“He who keeps the keys to Heaven rules the world.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sir Leigh Teabing

“Exceptional children are often the product of unremarkable parents.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“I told Watson if I ever write a story it will be to correct the million misconceptions created by his imagination.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“You mustn't upstage the bride.”
Sir Ian McKellen

“- Chauvelin: I am pleased to see that you have come to your senses.
- Count de Tournay: You left me little choice.
- Chauvelin: That was the general idea.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Chauvelin
Denis Lill - Count de Tournay

“- Mybug: We met in London.
- Amos Starkadder: Aye, the Devil's city. The stinking pit of whoredom.”
Stephen Fry - Mybug
Sir Ian McKellen - Amos Starkadder

“- Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
- Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Elijah Wood - Frodo
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“- Todd Bowden: Bergen-Belsen, January '43 to June '43. Auschwitz, June '43 to June '44. Then you went to Patin. After that you disappeared, but then in 1965 you were spotted in West Berlin.
- Kurt Dussander: Listen, boy... I don't have time for this game. Now get out of here before I call the police.
- Todd Bowden: Call them if you want. I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden
Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“Still unwilling to make sacrifices. That's what makes you weak.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto

“- Gandalf: We must trust now in Frodo. Everything depends now upon speed and upon the secrecy of his quest. Do not regret your decision to leave him. Frodo must finish this task alone.
- Aragorn: He's not alone. Sam went with him.
- Gandalf: Did he? Did he indeed? Good. Yes, very good.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf
Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn

“- Robert Langdon: This is the original icon for male. It's a rudimentary phallus.
- Sophie Neveu: Quite to the point.
- Sir Leigh Teabing: Yes, indeed.
- Robert Langdon: This is know as the blade. It represents aggression and manhood. It's a symbol still used today in modern military uniforms.
- Sir Leigh Teabing: Yes, the more penises you have,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon
Audrey Tautou - Sophie Neveu
Sir Ian McKellen - Sir Leigh Teabing

“You know what it's like when you burn your hand, taking a cake out of the oven, or lighting one of them godless cigarettes? And it stings with a fearful pain, aye? And you run to clap a bit of butter on it to take the pain away, aye? Well, I'll tell ye, there'll be no butter in hell!”

Sir Ian McKellen - Amos Starkadder

“Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again? And codes? I imagine they lie down for you like lovers.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Sir Leigh Teabing

“- John Profumo: I have nothing to hide.
- Stephen Ward: Come off it John, we all have something to hide, what a boring life it would be if we didn't.”
Sir Ian McKellen - John Profumo
Sir John Hurt - Stephen Ward

“I've spent much of my life outrunning the past, and now it floods all over me.”
Sir Ian McKellen - James Whale

“Do the stars gaze back?”
Sir Ian McKellen - Narrator

“An oath to a scoundrel is meaningless.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Chauvelin