Michael Gambon famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Play #Passengers
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
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
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
I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.
-- Michael Gambon

#Writing #Lines
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
A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
-- Michael Gambon

#Children #Restaurants #Approach
I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.
-- Michael Gambon

#Play #Years #Promise
I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.
-- Michael Gambon

#Eye #Gay #Giving
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
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
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
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
Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
-- Michael Gambon

#Play #Generations #Television
There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.
-- Michael Gambon

#School #Mouths #Smack
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
-- Michael Gambon

#Lazy #Theatre #Laziness
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

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