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" People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up. "
Michael Gambon
Mystery
Up
Should
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" Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy. "
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Know
You
Two
" 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. "
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Hat
Guns
" Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. "
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My Own
Play
" I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France. "
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Pilot
License
Had
" Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity. "
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Just
You
Celebrity
" Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. "
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Television
Up
Plays
" 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. "
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Know
People
Mouth
" A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf. "
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Restaurant
Child
Approach
" There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth. "
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Were
Spells
Smack
" 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. "
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Me
Love
Heart
" I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand. "
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Stand
Got
Mind
" 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. "
Michael Gambon
You
Disappointed
Book
" 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. "
Michael Gambon
Believe
Look
People
" I fell in love with Alan Ayckbourn the day I met him and, starting with 'The Norman Conquests,' went on to do eight plays with him. He tells you just what you want to know and has a brilliant way of solving problems. "
Michael Gambon
Problems
Love
Know
" 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
Me
Boy
Bored
" 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. Does that make sense? "
Michael Gambon
Me
Action
Bored
" 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
More
Living
" Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it? "
Michael Gambon
People
Acting
Say
" You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. "
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Me
Finish
Lazy
" I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. "
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Things
Learned
Firearms
" 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. "
Michael Gambon
Speech
Remember
Me
" The theatre starts every night at half past seven, and I like the rhythm of going to the theatre, parking the car, going to the stage door; I've grown up with all of that. I'd love to do more theatre - I mean, I shouldn't be telling the world that I can't remember lines any more, but I find it more and more difficult, so I don't know. "
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Night
Door
Car
" All actors say they're concerned about the state of the theatre, but what they're really concerned about is that there'll be less work around. "
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Concerned
Say
Work
" Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard. "
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Old
Why
Beard
" There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth. "
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School
Spells
Like
" I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. "
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Rather
Fear
Contented
" I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. "
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Actor
Movies
Theatre
" Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. "
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Always
Done
Oh Yeah
" I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them. "
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Learn
Writes
Say
" Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned. "
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Wrong
Feel
Need