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Michael Gambon Biography

Sir Michael John Gambon, CBE (born 19 October 1940) is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television, and film. Gambon has played the eponymous mystery writer protagonist in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and Professor Albus Dumbledore in the final six Harry Potter films after the death of Richard Harris who had previously played the role. He has won four BAFTA TV Awards and three Olivier Awards.

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I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.

Doors, Kids, Terrific, Thank, Thank God

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

Children, Cowboy, Development, Playing, Thing, Thinking

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

Play, Promise, Year, Years

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

Actor, Money, Taken, Theatre, Years

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?

Dream, Children, Kids, Become, Heartbeat, Dreamy

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

Approach, Children, Restaurant, Restaurants, Thought

I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.

Eye, Gay, Giving, Used, Water, Eyes

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

Play, Generations, Television, Plays, Films, Dried

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

Actor, Character, Play, Real

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.

Bored, Boys, Cause, Causing, Feelings, Slightly

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

Ballet, Beautiful, Classical, Flower, Love

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist. ' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

Acting, Come, Paul, People, Play, Talk

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

Mouth, Mouths, School, Smack

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

Talking, Actors, Rehearsal, Said, Having

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.

Actor, Keep, Lives, Mind, People, Trying