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.

Michael Gambon

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• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Woman

• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sometimes
  • Fans
  • Ugly

• I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Like
  • Secrets
  • Boxes

• The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Family
  • Home
  • You

• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
  • High
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Episode

• I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Animal
  • Eating

• 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.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Up
  • Night
  • Speak

• I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • People
  • Love
  • Challenge

• Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Language
  • Silence
  • Flow

• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Art
  • Death
  • Courage

• 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?'

  

  Ian McShane
  • Way
  • You
  • King

• Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hope
  • Education

• The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.

  

  T. E. Hulme

• The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

  

  John Sentamu
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Ignorance
  • Relax
  • Hide

• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • Sun
  • Poverty

• It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Men
  • Important

• If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

  

  Emmanuelle Riva
  • People

• 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.

  

  Michael Gambon
  • Important
  • Children
  • Acting