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Michael Gambon

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


— Michael Gambon


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


— Michael Gambon


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


— Michael Gambon


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


— Michael Gambon


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I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.


— Michael Gambon


#against #almost #always #being #done

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


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


— Michael Gambon


#learn #lines #rowling #say #them

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


— Michael Gambon


#contented #fear #get #i #live

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


— Michael Gambon


#go #i #myself #play #promise

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


#been #cars #collect #collector #collects






About Michael Gambon






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There were also appearances in Pinter's Old Times at the Haymarket Theatre and Jonson's Volpone and the brutal sergeant in Pinter's Mountain Language. Whilst at RADA Gambon acted in plays by William Shakespeare Anton Chekhov and many others. But together with Simon Russell Beale and Alan Bates he gave a deliciously droll radio account of the role of Marc.

A highly respected theatre actor Gambon is also recognised for his roles as Philip Marlow in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret and as Professor Albus Dumbledore in the final six Harry Potter films. Sir Michael John Gambon CBE (born 19 October 1940) is an English actor who has worked in theatre television and film.

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