Michelle Gomez Quotes

Michelle Gomez's page is witty and candid, sharing her moments of doubt, the absurdity of fame and the quirks of everyday life.

18 quotes

  1. 'I was trying to explain that this is actually a proper job but just feeling terribly ridiculous as real doctors and real patients were wheeled past,' Gomez says, 'There are moments when you think: what am I doing with my life?'

  2. 'I thought, wow, those people are showing off like me, that's what I do at home. I can do that and get paid. That was my first realisation that maybe I wasn't going to be a secretary or a postwoman or a lollipop woman. I did have a moment of thinking I liked the lollipop woman idea. But can you imagine? I would be like, 'F**king move your car!' I don't think that would work.'

  3. '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.'

  4. Green Wing (series 1) playing Sue White

  5. Green Wing (series 2) playing Sue White

  6. The Book Group playing Janice McCann

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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?'

  14. I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.