Mark Gatiss Quotes

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.

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.

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

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

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.

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

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

I prefer sneaking in the back door.

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

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

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.

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

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.

We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it while he's also terrifying.

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

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I've heard of such a legend!' I gasped. 'A child descended from a union between Christ and Mary Magda