Quotes by Michael Gambon - Page 1

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Play
Promise
Years
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There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Mouths
School
Smack
Spells
Mouth
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Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Generations
Play
Television
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Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.
Michael Gambon / Actor
My Generation
Dried
Plays
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I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Lines
Writing
Rowling
Whoever
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I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Classical Guitar
Classical
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There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Smack
Spells
Mouth
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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 / Actor
Eye
Gay
Giving
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I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Comedian
Love Always Done
Confines
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Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Movie Star
Tolerated
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I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
Michael Gambon / Actor
I Can
Passengers
Play
Contented
Passenger
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A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Approach
Children
Cornwall
Restaurants
Restaurant
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You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Being Lazy
Laziness
Lazy
Theatre
Classical
Finish
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Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Planned
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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 / Actor
Comedian
Done
Play
Yeah
Love Always Done
Confines
Oh Yeah
Plays
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I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.
Michael Gambon / Actor
France
License
Flown
Round
Pilot
Private
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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.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Beard
Ease
Stick
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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 / Actor
Ballet
Beautiful
Classical Music
Cry
Flower
Love Music Beautiful
Classical
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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 / Actor
Taken
Ten
Theatre
Years
Parts
Ten Years
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People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Blown
Hang
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Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Character
Play
Real
Real Character
Personality Character Me
Character Actor
Variant
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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 / Actor
Clubs
Dinner
Firearms
Belong
Collect
Dinners
Discuss
Societies
Quite A Lot
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Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Beard
Miserable
Sod
Dumbledore
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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 / Actor
Dream
Kids
Children
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My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Beaten
Fingers
Masters
Memories
All Day
Chest
Playground
Poking
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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 / Actor
Actors
Rehearsal
Talking
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There are more important ways of earning a living, aren't there? Like being a neurosurgeon. But some plays are very important, aren't they?
Michael Gambon / Actor
Earning
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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 / Actor
Actors
Hate
Ideas
Okay
Well Known
Fought
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I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Crooks
Old Man
Man Old Man Old
Opposite
Complete
Complete Opposite
Dumbledore
Quite A Lot
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Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Being Lazy
Lazy
My Generation
Classical
Dried
Finish
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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 / Actor
Magic
Nice
Real
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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 / Actor
Car
Expensive
Gun
Obsessive
Stamps
Stores
Always Difficult More
Collect
Collector
Guns
Store
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I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Anxious
Down The Road
Time Good Feel
La
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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 / Actor
Bored
Bother
Boys
Feelings
Teddy
Yeah
Causing
Stiff
Inferior
Slightly
Wanting
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I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Disappointed
Harry Potter
Harry
Potter
Script
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I fell in love with Alan Ayckbourn the day I met him and, starting with 'The Norman Conquests,' went on to do eight plays with him. He tells you just what you want to know and has a brilliant way of solving problems.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Brilliant
Alan
Norman
Solving
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I find it difficult to remember lines. When I'm doing a long speech for television, I sometimes have an earpiece with someone feeding me the text. But I can get by in the theatre if I study hard for a couple of months.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Feeding
Me Long Remember
Long Me Remember
Text
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Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Floating
Heavy
Layers
Silk
Slippers
Costume
Hardly
Hippy
Lighter
Pair
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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. Doesn't say much for acting, does it?
Michael Gambon / Actor
Harry Potter
Magic
Real Freedom
Subtext
Harry
Potter
Spell
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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. Does that make sense?
Michael Gambon / Actor
Action
Bored
Bother
Teddy
Cause
Stiff
Inferior
Slightly
Wanting
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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 / Actor
Mind
People
Trying
Astonished
Business Always Mind
Business Mind Me
Mouth
Shut
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I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Believe Look People
Demanding
Requires
Row
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I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Mass
Western
Blend
Guns
Costner
Hat
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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 / Actor
Children
Cowboy
Thinking
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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 / Actor
Acting
People
Play
World People Words
Meant
Exact
World Words People
Paul
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When I was doing 'Tales from Hollywood' at the National, I was invited to dinner by the choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan. He told me I had the heart of a dancer and asked me if I'd like to come on at the end of 'Romeo and Juliet' as a friar. I said I'd love to, but sadly, MacMillan died shortly after.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Dancer
Dinner
Invited
Juliet
Tales
Love Heart Me
Choreographer
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Sadly
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I see film roles as lovely presents that come along now and again. I feel really lucky and say thank you very much. And if they fly me to L.A., I think, 'God, I must really be doing well.' I've worked with De Niro and Brando and Pacino, and that's made me feel very lucky. But the films have never meant a lot to me.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Thank You
Brando
De Niro
Film
Lovely
Lucky
Again
Meant
Films
Niro
Presents
Thank
Worked
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The theatre starts every night at half past seven, and I like the rhythm of going to the theatre, parking the car, going to the stage door; I've grown up with all of that. I'd love to do more theatre - I mean, I shouldn't be telling the world that I can't remember lines any more, but I find it more and more difficult, so I don't know.
Michael Gambon / Actor
Every Night
Parking
Rhythm
Grown
More And More
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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 / Actor
Kids
Doors
Thank God
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