Mark Gatiss quotes

One man's fish is another man's poisson. (Mark Gatiss)
I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't. View quote
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Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it. View quote
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My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence. View quote
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Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals. View quote
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When I was your age - about, ooh, a thousand years ago - I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics. View quote
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I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise. View quote
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It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. View quote
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Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality. View quote
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I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod. View quote
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I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. (Mark Gatiss)
I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately. View quote
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The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked. View quote
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I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase. View quote
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I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. View quote
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Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars. View quote
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I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery. View quote
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All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after. View quote
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I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do. View quote
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When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at. View quote
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Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest. (Mark Gatiss)
They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner. View quote
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The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it. View quote
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I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it. View quote
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The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares. View quote
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