Mark Gatiss Quotes
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My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was…
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I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.
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At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.
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Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my…
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I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.
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I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught…
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I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.
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It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.
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I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
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I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.
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Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.
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They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was…
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I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.
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Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported…
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All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.
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I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.
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When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became…
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I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.
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I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.
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The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.
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