Mark Gatiss Quotes

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Mark Gatiss

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 17, 1966

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.

Mark Gatiss

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

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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.

Mark Gatiss

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

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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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Even though it's meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there's something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill.

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One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.

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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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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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'Misfits' is one of my favorite shows; I think it's a fantastic show.

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

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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 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.

Mark Gatiss