Michael Gambon Quotes
For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
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I've never been a partier.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'
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Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
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No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.
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I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
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I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
