Quotes...
+ Green Wing
+ The Book Group
+ Feel the Force
+ Carrie & Barry
"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."
-Talking about when she went to see Kiss Me Kate when she was seven
"I was trying to explain that this is actually a proper job but just feeling terribly ridiculous as real doctors and real patients where wheeled past. There are moments when you think what am I doing with my life?"
-On filming Green Wing in a real hospital.
"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."
"No one's ever going to say 'Michelle Gomez? It's all in the eyes, it's all contained.'"
"Mum was an old-fashioned beauty: fine-boned, normal hair - not like mine, which is the stuffing out of a couch."
"I love Sue White and I wish I could be more like her...Of course, I know that I resemble her every day of my life"
"It's odd, because recently I've been described as a comedian. And I'm not. I'm an actress who does funny things sometimes."
[on husband Jack Davenport]
"He came to see Trainspotting and, because I got my tits out on stage, he came back half a dozen more times.
"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 bowlcut. But he wore me down."
"She's got this incredible demonic performing energy, those mad eyes, and she thinks so fast. You watch her and you wonder, 'Is she really going to take it to that level?' Yes, she is. Michelle's not afraid of anything."
- Annie Griffin - writer/director of The Book Group
"Michelle Gomez is just on another planet! I was always amazed at what she came out with!"
- Pippa Haywood on who was the funniest cast member to work with on Green Wing
"Mark [Heap] and Michelle are both geniuses. It's very difficult not to laugh when you're with them."
- Julian Rhind-Tutt
[Green Wing series 1 commentary]
"She's got a fine bone structure - and other bits that haven't got so many bones in."
- Tamsin Greig
"Michelle is one of the most...what's the adjective for genius? One of the most talented people to work with."
- Julian Rhind-Tutt
"My husband is always telling me to write more things where she hasn't got any clothes on."
- Fay Rusling, Green Wing writer
"She's just...she's totally mental" - "Absolutely fantastic"
- Julian Rhind-Tutt & Stephen Mangan
"When Michelle and I improvise it always gets very darkly sexual very quickly"
- Stephen Mangan
"She's not just for Chrismas"
- Karl Theobald