Michael Gambon quotes

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they? (Michael Gambon)
I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them. View quote
Michael Gambon
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. View quote
Michael Gambon
I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store. View quote
Michael Gambon
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. View quote
Michael Gambon
I hear that the no-smoking crowd are now operating at the National. Surely that sort of mentality doesn't belong in a theatre, it isn't a place where you impose rules on people, it's a dirty radical place where an actor can work with a fag in his hand. View quote
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I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me. View quote
Michael Gambon
There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth. View quote
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I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year. View quote
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I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me. View quote
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Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it? (Michael Gambon)
I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. View quote
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I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. View quote
Michael Gambon
Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. View quote
Michael Gambon
A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf. View quote
Michael Gambon
I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it. View quote
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I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. View quote
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You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. View quote
Michael Gambon
Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. View quote
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Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. View quote
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