Mark Gatiss Quotes & Sayings
35 most famous Mark Gatiss quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 58 year old British actor born on Oct 17, 1966.
“I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.”
“My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.”
“I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.”
“Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.”
“I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.”
“I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.”
“Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.”
“Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.”
“I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.”
“The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.”
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