Michael Gambon Quotes
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
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It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
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To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.
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I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.
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I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
