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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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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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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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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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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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
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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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Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?
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In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
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Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.
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I just believe what I believe.
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Every character, for me, is a new discovery.
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.
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Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
