sometimes, when i see the posters of michael gambon, who plays dumbledore, i think, sometime, it's meet asked for each other‘s autograph. we have to get to the wizards. gandalf became you, you became gandalf. it was an extraordinary bonding of character and actor. you chose, not so long ago, that when you finally leave this mortal coil, your gravestone will simply say, played gandalf, came out. here lies gandalf. yes, that would do, wouldn't it? it is the two sides of my life which have meant a great deal to me. being as famous as the actor playing gandalf was bound to be, looking back on it, and i don't begrudge it at all, but i am now in contact with all sorts of people, particularly very young people all over the world who i could not possibly have known about. they have let me into their lives, to an extent. i visit schools quite a lot to talk about gay issues but i am welcome because it is gandalf. and they give me the time of day, which they probably would not if some old geezer strolled into the classroom. it is a very, very personal, wonderful thing. which i don't feel about o