Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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
Michael Gambon

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

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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
Michael Gambon

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

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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?

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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.

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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.

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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
Michael Gambon

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.

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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
Michael Gambon

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

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

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.

Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.