Mark Gatiss quotes

Mark Gatiss is an English actor, screenwriter, and novelist, best known for his work on "Sherlock" and "Doctor Who." In addition to his acting career, he has written and produced for several acclaimed television series. He continues to be a major figure in British television and theatre. Here are 26 of his quotes:

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

Mark Gatiss

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 youth while I had it.

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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 a presence.

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Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

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When I was your age - about, ooh, a thousand years ago - I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

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I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

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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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Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.

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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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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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The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

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I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

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I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

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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 to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.

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I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

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All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

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I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

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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 my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.

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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 that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

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The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

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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 up in it.

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The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

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