Ian Mckellen Quotes

I feel like I've just got to be me and let my play speak for itself.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

When Mouni Roy became Naagin' or even Adaa Khan, Surbhi Jyoti, everybody did it differently, so I want to do it my way as well.

I can't be Martin O'Neill; I can't be any of the other coaches - I have to make my own way.

There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they don't have to agree with me in general. I'm not here to be loved by everybody. I want to be. But I don't think it's humanly possible to be unanimously loved. But I think I've voiced it clearly that I'm not here to be a baby doll.

I love the idea of challenging what the standards is.

My parents are both very stylish, so they always encouraged me to explore when it came to personal style. I went through a lot of crazy phases, and I'm still finding myself.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...

I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization . That way, it's a process of continuing growth.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.

I hope a kid listens to my stuff, I hope there's a change made and at least somebody walks away with: "I'm doing this because I like it." People are going to hate it and that's okay, but I have to do it because my happiness is important too, it's worth it.

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend towards what the industry was telling me to do and after you mature at a certain time in your life, you come into your own...your own niche, your own personality, not only as an artist but as a person.

All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.