I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that’s because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses. Michelle Gomez Read Quote
I’m always slightly worried if I do a film and we’re filming it in Luxembourg. I know it’s going to go straight DVD. Michelle Gomez Read Quote
I don’t think of myself as an actress. I still think I’m fannying around in my mum’s front room. Michelle Gomez Read Quote
I’ve always been a gurner. I tried to reel it in. You know there was a period when I thought I was going to be a really serious actress, but the gurning… I can’t get in control of it. It just runs away with me. Michelle Gomez Read Quote
I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor. Michelle Gomez Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I bring so much of myself to each character that there’s always a worrying point when I think: ‘Oh no, I’m really that person.’ Michelle Gomez Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
