Sir Ian McKellen movie quotes

“Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.”
Sir Ian McKellen

“Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“- Sherlock Holmes: I have been alone. All my life. But with the compensations of the intellect.
- Ann Kelmot: And is that enough?
- Sherlock Holmes: It can be. If one is so fortunate as to find a place in the world.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes
Hattie Morahan - Ann Kelmot

“- Theoden: No parent should have to bury their child.
- Gandalf: He was strong in life. His spirit will find the way to the halls of your fathers.”

Bernard Hill - Theoden
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'”
Sir Ian McKellen

“I don't do fiction. Not my field.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Death

“Saruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“Don't underestimate the evil of gold.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“You must write again, Will.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Earl of Southampton

“- Henry Wriothesley: We have only Johnson now.
- William Shakespeare: Who laughs at me because I speak no Greek and don't know whether Bohemia has a coast.
- Henry Wriothesley: Oh Christ Will, why do you care what he thinks? You wrote King Lear.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Earl of Southampton
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare

“- Roger: You're not going to die.
- Sherlock Holmes: I'm 93.
- Roger: I had a great-uncle who lived to be 102.
- Sherlock Holmes: Well done. That seals my fate. What are the odds that you would know two men who would live that long?”
Milo Parker - Roger
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“I will draw you, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“I don't live alone, I have the housekeeper!”

Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

- Eva Cuza: We're dealing with a Golem! A devil!
- Dr. Cuza: A devil? Now you listen to me! The devil in the Keep wears a black uniform and has a death's head in his cap, and calls himself a "Sturmbannführer"!
Alberta Watson - Eva Cuza
Sir Ian McKellen - Dr. Theodore Cuza

“- Logan: What do you want?
- Magneto: There are dark forces, Logan. Human forces building a weapon that could bring about the end of our kind. What do I want? I want your help.”
Hugh Jackman - Logan
Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto

“The Good Book did not arrive by facsimile from heaven.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sir Leigh Teabing

“- Tamiki Umezaki: My mother, she wonders if you brought your famous hat.
- Sherlock Holmes: The deerstalker? I've never worn one.
- Tamiki Umezaki: And a pipe?
- Sherlock Holmes: I prefer a cigar.”
Hiroyuki Sanada - Tamiki Umezaki
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“They'll all burn in hell, and someone's gotta tell 'em so.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Amos Starkadder

“They were, as John always described them, penny dreadfuls with an elevated prose style.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“And so ends the story about a woman who died before her time, and a man who had long outlived his.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“One shouldn't leave this life without a sense of completion.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“- Boy's Mother: You must forgive my son, he loves bees.
- Sherlock Holmes: It isn't a bee, it's a wasp. Different thing entirely.”

Zoe Rainey - Boy's Mother
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“There seems to be an outbreak of mortality.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“- Frodo: You're late.
- Gandalf: A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.”
Elijah Wood - Frodo
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf