Michael Gambon Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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