Michael Gambon Quotes
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
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I love being able to change from big films to small films.
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No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I stopped caring what people thought.
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Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
