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

Character, Real, Play

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
Michael Gambon

Learned, Quite, Belong

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

Thought, Child, Approach

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

Money, Movies, Last

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, Done, Impossible

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

Him, Play, Role

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

Learn, Lines, Whoever

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

Fear, Live, Play

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

Play, Year, Promise

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

Difficult, Guns, Cars

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
Michael Gambon

Love, Music, Beautiful

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

Business, Mind, Understand

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.
Michael Gambon

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

Words, Play, Why

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

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.
Michael Gambon

Generation, Television, Films

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

School, Mouth, Spells

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

Freedom, Nice, Real

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

Feeling, Bored, Rather

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

Lazy, Off, Used

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: October 19, 1940

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