Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon
Sir Michael John Gambon CBEis an Irish-born English actor who has worked in theatre, television and film. Gambon has played Philip Marlow in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and Professor Albus Dumbledore in the last six Harry Potter films after the death of actor Richard Harris...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 October 1940
CityDublin, Ireland
dream children kids
Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?
beautiful flower ballet
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
hate ideas actors
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.
people mind trying
I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.
taken years theatre
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
boys bored feelings
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.
years play promise
I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.
clubs dinner firearms
I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
british-actor ease
I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.
bit british-actor floating hardly layers lighter pair played richard turned
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.
classical dried lazy plays
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.
chest fingers hit masters poking school
My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.
funny kids maybe rather sod white
Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.
concerned state work
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.