I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room. Michelle Gomez More Quotes by Michelle Gomez More Quotes From Michelle Gomez When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today. Michelle Gomez today moving thinking There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things. Michelle Gomez making-a-difference differences people For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place. Michelle Gomez distance remember firsts I'm not scheduling my entire life to death in order to be able do the work I've got to do. So at the moment I'm quite happy. Michelle Gomez moments A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left. Michelle Gomez nostalgia home remember There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing. Michelle Gomez too-much-of-a-good-thing too-much good-things It felt like a sweet victory, 'You can vaporize me but it's not gonna make me any different. I'm just gonna come back stronger.' A little different though, but she's definitely back with a vengeance. Michelle Gomez top-news You're seeing another layer of their relationship, this year it's just on a different level, exploring the history of their relationship. Michelle Gomez top-news I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't. Michelle Gomez dressing thought living acting I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting on a sofa, and someone's going to feed me grapes, and I'm not getting up.' Michelle Gomez me sitting work opportunity I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school. Michelle Gomez actress myself lazy school The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.' Michelle Gomez beginning myself me believe I have no interest in being a celebrity. I wouldn't go to anything that I wasn't involved in just for the sake of wearing a nice frock and having my picture taken. That part of the business doesn't make me feel very comfortable. Michelle Gomez picture feel me business I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?' Michelle Gomez back you real ambition Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down. Michelle Gomez down thought me young I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just make Shakespeare as vivid and live as possible. Michelle Gomez live bad experience school I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix. Michelle Gomez laugh deep people way I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish. Michelle Gomez feel me political proud I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living. Michelle Gomez thought myself living school It's good for me to pull away from something that is just done for effect, which was basically Sue White in 'Green Wing.' In that, it was very much: if in trouble, gurn, or fall down. There was no character background to Sue. You didn't know who she was. She didn't have any toehold in any kind of reality. Michelle Gomez good me you character
