Mark Gatiss Quotes

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• I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Reading, Doors, Listening

  "Mark Gatiss and Tom Riley discuss bringing Robin Hood to life for ‘Doctor Who’". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. September 5, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Emo, Teenager, Names

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• I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

  Mark Gatiss

  Surprise, Believer

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• You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

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  Adventure, Tragedy, Wells

  "Mark Gatiss on Sherlock series 4: 'You can expect tragedy as well as adventure'" by Paul Jones, www.radiotimes.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

  Mark Gatiss

  Heart, Thinking, Simple

  "Sherlock (TV Series) - A Scandal in Belgravia". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If he became one, that would be interesting. But you have to give him somewhere to go, as [Conan] Doyle did.

  Mark Gatiss

  Character, Men, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Mark Gatiss

  Keys, Years, White

  "Doctor Who: Night Terrors". TV Series, September 3, 2011.

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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.

  Mark Gatiss

  Men, Horror Genre, Desire

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• It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

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  Fun, Lying, Roles

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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.

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  Children, Reality, Thinking

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• I prefer sneaking in the back door.

  Mark Gatiss

  Doors, Back Doors

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• If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Light, Dying, Littles

  Mark Gatiss (2009). “Black Butterfly: A Lucifer Box Novel”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Self Esteem, Thinking, Glasses

  "Mark Gatiss: My family values". Interview with Alistair Duncan, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2010.

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• One man's fish is another man's poisson.

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  Men, Fishes, Another Man

  Mark Gatiss (2005). “Vesuvius Club”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it while he's also terrifying.

  Mark Gatiss

  Different, Conan, Charm

  Source: collider.com

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• I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

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  Bisexual, Thinking, People

  "Mark Gatiss: My family values". Interview with Alistair Duncan, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2010.

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• [Toby Jones] is completely different. It's a completely different character. He's the darkest villain we've had. There was always something charming and engaging about Moriarty. There was something fascinating and actually amoral, rather than immoral, about Charles Augustus Magnussen. This guy is the purest evil. Sherlock [Holmes] is actually appalled by him.

  Mark Gatiss

  Character, Evil, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.

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  Gay, Men, Class

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• Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

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  Trust No One, Use, Facts

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2014

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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.

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  Thinking, Actors, Sometimes

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• I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

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  Swim, Awful, Leisure

  "What I see in the mirror: Mark Gatiss" by Mark Gatiss, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

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• Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.

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  Sweet, Men, Mets

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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.

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  War, Home, Europe

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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.

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  Childhood, Minorities, Tvs

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• I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

  Mark Gatiss

  Girlfriend, Phases

  "Mark Gatiss: My family values". Interview with Alistair Duncan, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.

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