Michael Gambon Quotes

When plays present themselves, I can't miss 'em. I got to make 'em.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

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

After 'Peepshow,' I really don't know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.

Have I seen any plays that I've been in? Uh, you know, might be a little weird.

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

While I am open to good offers when they come by, I have found my calling in theatre.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'