McKellen asked Gambon if he was ever mistaken for Gandalf. “All the time!” he replied. “That’s good,” said McKellen. “And what do you do?” “Oh,” Gambon told him, “I just sign your name!”
".. I can’t really sing,” he said. “That’s never prevented actors from appearing in musicals before.” “No,” he replied. “But it prevented my enjoyment.”
"Other people tend to get snobbish on my behalf. ‘It must be dreadful to always be thought of as Gandalf,’ they say. Well, I can’t always be thought of as Richard III!”
.. he ordered dessert and cheerfully imagined the inscription on his gravestone: here lies gandalf. he came out. “That would do it! We needn’t mention Macbeth.”