Mark Gatiss Quotes

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

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period. ~ Mark Gatiss

Grooming-wise, it is now a constant battle as I progressively turn into my father. I have to keep on top of ear and nose hair - things you never believe will happen to you. Suddenly I have a shaving brush in my ear and I don't know where it's come from, and the more hair I take the out, the more it surges back. ~ Mark Gatiss

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. ~ Mark Gatiss

'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series. ~ Mark Gatiss

I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it. ~ Mark Gatiss

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

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

Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him. ~ Mark Gatiss

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes, ~ Mark Gatiss

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun. ~ Mark Gatiss

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'. ~ Mark Gatiss

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics. ~ Mark Gatiss

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

Doctor: 'I am not a hero.
Robin Hood: 'Well, neither am I, but if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name. Perhaps we will both be stories and may those stories never end. ~ Mark Gatiss

You know, the Elizabethans thought nostalgia was a diagnosable disease. Perhaps they were right. ~ Mark Gatiss

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

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. ~ Mark Gatiss

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

I've told you, I don't know!' bellowed the Doctor, angrily. 'I can't have an answer for everything.'
Oh, that's a good one, thought Ace. ~ Mark Gatiss

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

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think? ~ Mark Gatiss

I prefer sneaking in the back door. ~ Mark Gatiss

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. ~ Mark Gatiss

He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him. ~ Mark Gatiss

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. ~ Mark Gatiss

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it. ~ Mark Gatiss

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'm pretty nifty at thinking on my feet, even when I'm actually sitting down with a renter in my embrace, but this fellow's sudden appearance had me more than a little stumped ~ Mark Gatiss

I imagine John Watson thinks love's a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn't resist it, could you? I've always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof. ~ Mark Gatiss

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

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

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

Amy: Hey, Paisley, Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?
Bracewell: What?
Amy: Hurts, doesn't it? But kind of a good hurt. ~ Mark Gatiss

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

A better time. A simpler time,' said the Doctor. 'That's what we all yearn for. The pain of wanting to belong somewhere. To go home. ~ Mark Gatiss

Do you believe in Evil, Mr Box?" said my companion, grinding his jaw and looking at the couple with unfeigned contempt.
"Only on Wednesdays. ~ Mark Gatiss

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals. ~ Mark Gatiss

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. ~ Mark Gatiss

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

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. ~ Mark Gatiss

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

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

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it. ~ Mark Gatiss

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly. ~ Mark Gatiss

I've heard of such a legend!' I gasped. 'A child descended from a union between Christ and Mary Magdalene!'
'Don't be so fucking stupid,' snorted Mons. 'There's hundreds of those! ~ Mark Gatiss

I know that what's done … is done. No sense living in the past. The only way for me is forward. Always forward. ~ Mark Gatiss

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned".
"JESUS ~ Anonymous

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit. ~ Peter Kreeft

you know what is and what is not right. All men do, though they may spend their years trying to bury that knowing, burying it beneath words, hatreds, lusts, sorrow, or any of the other bricks from which they build their lives. ~ Mark Lawrence

Which is him? The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. ~ Mark Twain

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them. ~ Mark Victor Hansen

In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster. ~ Mark Twain

Simplicity is something more, something other than just doing without or doing it yourself. Its essence is neither forsaking nor striving. Its essence, rather, is listening: What has God put in your heart? Simplicity is, once having discerned that, being content with it. Simplifying it further: simplicity is being content with God. ~ Mark Buchanan

is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in. ~ Lynne Truss

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes. ~ Roseanne Barr

They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles. ~ Mark Batterson

Last summer, in London at least, the hoodie was transformed from a benign piece of leisurewear into a uniform for the disaffected, the angry, the malevolent. So much so that 'hoodie' was no longer a piece of clothing. It was a whole person. A hoodie was somebody likely to steal, plunder and do you unimaginable harm.

People were crossing the street when a hoodie crossed their path - even if it was a 70-year-old gentleman walking his dog. That's how quickly the fear had permeated the collective consciousness. And lifting the hood was tantamount to cocking a gun. ~ Mark Capell

Suicide may be a choice, but not as much as it is expected when everything else fails. ~ Mark Brightlife

George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context. ~ Mark McKinnon

Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic? ~ Mark Helprin

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing. ~ Mark Caine

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world. ~ Mark Zandi

It was one thing to talk of using technology to topple the authority of the aristocracy and the Church, but who or what would replace them? Diderot and the French revolutionaries had assumed it would be "the people." But as the nineteenth-century French historian Jules Michelet once wryly observed, "The people, in its highest ideal, is difficult to find in the people." As ~ Mark Kurlansky

Perhaps they never left the island when construction was complete," Otto replied.
Wing raised an eyebrow. "A true job for life."
"Or a life for a job," Otto countered. He wouldn't be at all surprised, given the emphasis on total secrecy, if H.I.V.E. offered an "aggressive" retirement package for lower-level employees. Here, being fired was probably a term that was taken a little too literally. ~ Mark Walden

Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture. ~ Mark Bauerlein

Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance. ~ Mark Frost

You say I haven't any orginality. But mark this, dear Prince, there's nothing more annoying for a man of our time and race than to tell him he's not original, a weak character with no special talents, ordinary in other words. You didn't even deign to regard me as a genuine rogue, I felt like killing you for that just now, you know that? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as are in the books [The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John]. They are more numerous and striking than I had any expectation of finding, when I began this examination, ... ~ Thomas Paine

For, in the end, Brearley did manage to create cutlery from stainless steel, and it's the transparent protective layer of chromium oxide that makes the spoon tasteless, since your tongue never actually touches the metal and your saliva cannot react with it; it has meant that we are one of the first generations who have not had to taste our cutlery. ~ Mark Miodownik

Jace buried his face in the pillow as Clint's tongue found its mark, licking, sucking, probing the tender skin before spearing and thrusting his tongue into Jace's hole, causing Jace to squirm and hump the bed. Clint ~ S.E. Jakes

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? ~ Mark Twain

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public. ~ Mark Twain

Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things. ~ Mark Rubinstein

Marriages struggle because we've set our marriages up to fail by thinking that this person is going to complete me when they were never created to do that. ~ Mark Hall

these are ten manifestations of demon possession in the New Testament. 1. superhuman physical strength (Mark 5:3; Acts 19:16) 2. fits of rage and ferocious behavior (Mark 5:4) 3. high pain tolerance (Mark 5:5) 4. self-mutilation (Mark 5:5) 5. foaming at the mouth (Luke 9:39) 6. seizures or convulsions (Luke 9:42) 7. divided personality (Mark 5:6-7) (The demoniac ran to Jesus yet at the same time cried out in fear.) 8. resistance to spiritual things, especially the name of Jesus (Mark 5:7) 9. clairvoyance or supernatural knowledge (Mark 5:7; Acts 16:16) 10. change in voice (Mark 5:9) ~ Mark Hitchcock

I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you. ~ Julian Ovenden

We're trained in school to equate mistakes with bad grades - something to be avoided at all costs. The alpha makers were somehow able to dodge that. They think that mistakes are just part of the creative process and maybe even the best way to learn. ~ Mark Frauenfelder

One of the primary ways horses communicate with us is through their behavior. Again, it is my belief horses don't distinguish between how they feel and how they act. So if they act a certain way, their actions are reflecting the way they feel. A horse's body then becomes a mirror for their emotions. So the body informs us of what is truly going on internally. ~ Mark Rashid

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore. ~ Mark Ruffalo

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it. ~ Mark Vonnegut

[H]e quoted eloquently from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and a section which had been stricken from his party's platform seventy-five years ago. He was not quite clear on what all this had to do with [the present situation], but it was noble and stirring and would bring in a lot of votes. ~ Mark Clifton

A writer is never unemployed. ~ Mark Rubinstein

Joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms ~ Mark Matousek

Whatever happens, keep moving and thinking. Countless millions have spent their last moments on Earth paralyzed by confusion. Don't be among them. These words faded out again, but not before leaving their mark on him. And this mark was indelible. He knew now: he was somehow going to have to think his way out of this. ~ Glynn James

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility. ~ Mark Batterson

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich. ~ Mark Twain

Immensely clever story, and quite creepy, in a delightfully scary way. ~ Mark Z. Danielewski

To eat is human, to digest, divine ~ Mark Twain