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

• But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Trying
  • Prove
  • Saying

• 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
  • You
  • Way
  • 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

• It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.

  

  James L. Petigru
  • Passion

• We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Today
  • Revolution
  • Realizing

• I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Black

• 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