Michael Gambon Quotes & Sayings

“Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.”

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

“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.”

“I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.”

“There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.”