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Mistakes in films/shows starring Ian McKellen

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Title Mistakes Trivia Pictures Corrections Quotes Easter eggs Trailer
Apt Pupil 2 1
The Da Vinci Code 28 3 25
Gods and Monsters 19 1
Last Action Hero 16 3 2 10
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 261 71 59 139 14 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 225 41 40 148 18 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 256 65 29 121 7 1
Richard III 2 1
The Shadow 10 5
Swept from the Sea 1
X-Men 43 18 3 62 8 2
X-Men 2 61 49 21 98 6
X-Men 3 21 9 6 27 6 3

Quotes from Ian McKellen

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring quotes

Frodo: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance.

Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.

Gandalf: A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to!

Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee, have you been eavesdropping?

Sam Gamgee: I ain't been dropping no eaves, sir, honest! I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you follow me.

Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think?

Sam Gamgee: I heard raised voices.

Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak!

Sam Gamgee: Oh, nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a Ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world, but please Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... un-natural.

Frodo: I wish the ring never came to me.

Gandalf: So do all who have carried its burden, but that is not for us to decide. All there is to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.

Frodo: I am just a hobbit, Gandalf, you are a great wizard. You take the Ring!

Gandalf: [Backing away] No! No! I must not take the Ring. It will work through me, and I will do great evil, thinking I am doing great good.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King quotes

Gandalf: We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.

Pippin: I never thought it would end this way.

Gandalf: End? This is not the end. Death is just another path, one that we all must take.

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

Gandalf: They guard it because they have hope. A faint and fading hope that one day it will flower. That a king will come and this city will be as it once was before it fell into decay. The old wisdom born out of the west was forsaken. Kings made tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the old names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high, cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the people of Gondor fell into ruin. The line of Kings failed. The white tree withered. The rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men.

Aragorn: We have time. Every day Frodo moves closer to Mordor.

Gandalf: Do we know that?

Aragorn: What does your heart tell you?

Gandalf: That Frodo is alive. Yes. Yes, he's alive.

X-Men quotes

[Trapped inside the Statue of Liberty.]

Cyclops: Storm, fry him!

Magneto: Oh yes! A bolt of lightening into a huge copper conductor. I thought you lived at a school?