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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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.
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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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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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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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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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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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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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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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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.
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When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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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.
