Michael Gambon Quotes
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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Big doors swing on little hinges.
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Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?
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I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
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Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.
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I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.
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Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.
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I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.
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I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.
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The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!
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When I was grounded, I wouldn't be allowed to go on set. That's how much I loved it.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
