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" I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be. "

Michael Gambon

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" People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up. "

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Mystery

Should

" I find it difficult to remember lines. When I'm doing a long speech for television, I sometimes have an earpiece with someone feeding me the text. But I can get by in the theatre if I study hard for a couple of months. "

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Speech

Remember

" I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them. "

" I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year. "

" I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store. "

" There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth. "

Michael Gambon

School

Spells

" Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. "

" I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. "

" I see film roles as lovely presents that come along now and again. I feel really lucky and say thank you very much. And if they fly me to L.A., I think, 'God, I must really be doing well.' I've worked with De Niro and Brando and Pacino, and that's made me feel very lucky. But the films have never meant a lot to me. "

Michael Gambon

Fly

God

" I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you. "

" When I was doing 'Tales from Hollywood' at the National, I was invited to dinner by the choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan. He told me I had the heart of a dancer and asked me if I'd like to come on at the end of 'Romeo and Juliet' as a friar. I said I'd love to, but sadly, MacMillan died shortly after. "

Michael Gambon

Love

Heart

" I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France. "

" I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me. "

" I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me. "

" I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. "

" I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out. "

" There are more important ways of earning a living, aren't there? Like being a neurosurgeon. But some plays are very important, aren't they? "

Michael Gambon

Earning

Living

" I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. "

Michael Gambon

Cry

Beautiful

" Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity. "

" Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. "

Michael Gambon

Television

Plays

" Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned. "

" There's no subtext in 'Harry Potter,' really; it's all magic - anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. Doesn't say much for acting, does it? "

" I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man. "

Michael Gambon

Interesting

Old

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" Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. "

Michael Gambon

Boy

Bored

" I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that. "

" Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard. "