Sir Ian McKellen movie quotes

“The journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“My life is a game of strip poker. Want to play?”
Sir Ian McKellen - James Whale

“Now, listen carefully. Lord Denethor is Boromir's father. To give him news of his beloved son's death would be most unwise. And do not mention Frodo, or the Ring. And say nothing of Aragorn either. In fact, it's better if you don't speak at all, Peregrin Took.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“In chess, the pawns go first.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Erik Lehnsherr

“- Captain Klaus Woermann: Who's this?
- Dr. Cuza: My son. He died in Spain. Five years ago this month. Fighting on the republican side. Where you in Spain?
- Captain Klaus Woermann: If I were, I would have been in the Thälmann brigade. The anti-fascist Germans. Your son and I, we would have been fighting on the same side. But no, I wasn't.”

Jürgen Prochnow - Woermann
Sir Ian McKellen - Dr. Theodore Cuza

“- Bilbo: You will keep an eye on Frodo, won't you?
- Gandalf: Two eyes, as often as I can spare them.”
Sir Ian Holm - Bilbo
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“- Kurt Dussander:The indignities I've suffered with you, I should smash you.
- Todd Bowden: What you've suffered with me is nothing compared to what the Israelis would do to you.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander
Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden

“Charles Xavier did more for mutants than you will ever know. My single greatest regret is that he had to die for our dream to live.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Erik Lehnsherr

“- Gandalf: The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
- Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
- Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
- Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.
- Gandalf: No... No it isn't.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf
Billy Boyd - Pippin

“- Armand St. Just: You used me.
- Chauvelin: Yes. And as long as you are here to serve the committee, I shall continue to use you.”
Malcolm Jamieson - Armand St. Just
Sir Ian McKellen - Chauvelin

“90,000 died in Patin. To the whole world, I am a monster. And you have known about me all this time. If I'm caught, when those reporters stick their microphones in my face it will be your name that I will repeat over and over again. Todd Bowden, Todd Bowden... Todd Bowden, yes, that was his name. For how long, for months, almost a year, he...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“It's called scotoma. The mind sees what it choses to see.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sir Leigh Teabing

“- Magneto: You know this plastic prison of theirs won't hold me forever. The war is still coming. And I intend to fight it, by any means necessary.
- Professor Charles Xavier: And I will always be there, old friend.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto
Sir Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier

I will not say "Do not weep", for not all tears are an evil.
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“- Pippin: Is there any hope, Gandalf, for Frodo and Sam?
- Gandalf: There never was much hope. Just a fool's hope.”
Billy Boyd - Pippin
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“Hatred was the only thing that kept my soul alive. And amongst the men I hated... was my dear old dumb father, who put me in that hell in the first place.”
Sir Ian McKellen - James Whale

“- Todd Bowden: I want to hear about it.
- Kurt Dussander: Hear about what?
- Todd Bowden: The stories. Everything.
- Kurt Dussander: What everything?
- Todd Bowden: Everything they're afraid to show us in school. You were there. You did those things. No one can tell it better than you can.”

Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden
Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“- Magneto: America was going to be the land of tolerance. Peace.
- Rogue: Are you going to kill me?
- Magneto: Yes.
- Rogue: Why?
- Magneto: Because there is no land of tolerance. There is no peace. Not here, or anywhere else.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto
Anna Paquin - Rogue

“As long as there has been... one true God, there has been killing in his name.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sir Leigh Teabing

“To have someone in your control. To have them know that they are alive only because you have not decided to the contrary. Do you have that power? Ask yourself. It's not an easy question, I think you know that.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“- Dr. Cuza: What you sense is my fate in a death camp?
- Molasar: A place where people gather to die?
- Dr. Cuza: A place where people are murdered.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Dr. Theodore Cuza
Michael Carter - Radu Molasar

“- Magneto: Does it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they will pass that foolish law or one just like it, and come for you? And your children?
- Professor Charles Xavier: It does, indeed.
- Magneto: What do you do, when you wake up to that?
- Professor Charles Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto
Sir Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier

“- Gandalf: Faramir! Your father's will has turned to madness. Do not throw away your life so rashly.
- Faramir: Where does my allegiance lie if not here? This is the city of the men of Numenor. I would gladly give my life to defend her beauty, her memory... her wisdom.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf
David Wenham - Faramir

“- Magneto: Why do you come here, Charles?
- Professor Charles Xavier: Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answer?
- Magneto: Ah, yes. Your continuing search for hope.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto
Sir Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier

“- James Whale: Am I right in assuming, Mr. Kay, that it's not me that you're interested in, but only my horror pictures?
- Edmund Kay: No, but it's the horror movies you'll be remembered for.
- James Whale: I'm not dead yet, Mr. Kay.”
Sir Ian McKellen - James Whale
Jack Plotnick - Edmund Kay