DD or Gangalf - who is greater?

[Carol]

montims wrote:
> 
> not to be defending Gambon too much, as I don't like his character
in the movies either, but he is a very good actor, and I think he has
very little patience with interviewers, so some of the remarks he has
made are just jokes which haven't been taken that way.  Also, as to
not reading the books, given the scripts they are working with, he is
probably right.  The scripts differ so much from the books, how would
it help having read them? (Assuming he hasn't, which we can't know for
sure...)  <snip>

Carol responds:

Now, Janette, do you really think I would make something like this up
or just repeat a rumor I'd heard that Gambon hasn't read the books? He
said it himself in an interview excerpted on hpana news on November
16, 2005:

http://www.hpana.com/news.19095.html

The link to the original interview no longer works, but the quote is
there as plain as day for anyone to read:

"Empire: Are you kind of easing into the role a bit more now you have
done one film as Dumbledore?

"Gambon: I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role
really. I stick a beard on and play me. Every part I play is just a
variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course,
just me.

"Empire: Have you still not read any of the books?

"Gambon: Well, I don't see any point. I've got the scripts. People who
have read the books get miserable because of all the bits that have
been cut out. So I just read the script. That's the best way."

Carol, who should have supplied the quote in the first place