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“I prefer sneaking in the back door.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Doors
“It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Fun #Lying #Roles
“I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Thinking #Bisexual #People
“I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Fun #Restoration #Comedy
“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.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Childhood #Tvs #Minorities
“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.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Emo #Teenager #Names
“I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Gay #Men #Class
“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.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#War #Home #Europe
“All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Film #Speak #Obvious
“Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Sweet #Men #Mets
“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

#Self Esteem #Thinking #Glasses
“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.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Disease #Nostalgia #Nostalgic
“I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Swim #Awful #Leisure
“One man's fish is another man's poisson.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Men #Fishes
“It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.”
-- Mark Gatiss
“If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Light #Dying #Littles
“All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Thinking #Littles #Pleasure
“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.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Dad #Figures #Realising
“I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Portraits #Gallery
“At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#School #Chemistry #Physics
“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.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Children #Mistake #Youth
“Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Sometimes #Great Music #Forgettable
“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.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Real #Thinking #People
“Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Trust No One #Facts #Use
“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

#Thinking #Actors #Sometimes
“YouÂ can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes,”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Adventure #Tragedy #Wells
“When I was your age â€” about, ooh, a thousand years ago â€” 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.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Years #White #Clothes
“I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Writing #Thinking #People
“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

#Men #Desire #Growing
“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.”
-- Mark Gatiss

#Children #Reality #Thinking

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