Michael Gambon Quotes

• Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

  Michael Gambon

  Real, Character, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.

  Michael Gambon

  Eye, Gay, Giving

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• 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

  Dream, Children, Kids

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• A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

  Michael Gambon

  Children, Restaurants, Approach

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

  Michael Gambon

  Children, Cowboy, Thinking

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• There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

  Michael Gambon

  School, Mouths, Smack

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

  Michael Gambon

  Talking, Actors, Rehearsal

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• I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

  Michael Gambon

  Writing, Lines

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.

  Michael Gambon

  Real, Nice, Magic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michael Gambon

  Beautiful, Flower, Ballet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.

  Michael Gambon

  Kids, Doors, Thank God

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• I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

  Michael Gambon

  Play, Passengers, I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Michael Gambon

  Hate, Ideas, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Michael Gambon

  Boys, Bored, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michael Gambon

  Clubs, Dinner, Firearms

  "Behind the scenes" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2004.

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• Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

  Michael Gambon

  Play, Generations, Television

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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.

  Michael Gambon

  People, Mind, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Play, People, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

  Michael Gambon

  Years, Play, Promise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Michael Gambon

  Gun, Car, Stores

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

  Michael Gambon

  Taken, Years, Theatre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

  Michael Gambon

  Lazy, Theatre, Laziness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michael Gambon

  Play, Comedian, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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