Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
Ian MckellenI was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.
Ian MckellenWhen you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.
Ian Mckellen