Mark Gatiss famous quotes

I prefer sneaking in the back door.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Doors

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

#Fun #Lying #Roles

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Thinking #Bisexual #People

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Fun #Restoration #Comedy

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

#Childhood #Tvs #Minorities

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Emo #Teenager #Names

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

#Gay #Men #Class

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#War #Home #Europe

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Film #Speak #Obvious

Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Sweet #Men #Mets

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Self Esteem #Thinking #Glasses

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Disease #Nostalgia #Nostalgic

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

#Swim #Awful #Leisure

One man's fish is another man's poisson.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Men #Fishes

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.
-- Mark Gatiss

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

#Light #Dying #Littles

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?
-- Mark Gatiss

#Thinking #Littles #Pleasure

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Dad #Figures #Realising

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Portraits #Gallery

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.
-- Mark Gatiss

#School #Chemistry #Physics

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Children #Mistake #Youth

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Sometimes #Great Music #Forgettable

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Real #Thinking #People

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

#Trust No One #Facts #Use

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Thinking #Actors #Sometimes

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes,
-- Mark Gatiss

#Adventure #Tragedy #Wells

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

#Years #White #Clothes

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Writing #Thinking #People

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 #Desire #Growing

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Children #Reality #Thinking

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Firsts #Tvs #Remember

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Struggle #Play #Crowns

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.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Book #Eight #Looks

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Surprise #Believer

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 #Simple #Love Is

I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Girlfriend #Phases