Top 84 Domhnall Gleeson Quotes
#1. When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
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#2. The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.
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#4. You're supposed to take a second if life is going well, to enjoy it and not just move on with the rest of your day worrying about the next thing. And it's a really trite point in some ways. But it's bizarre how little I had done it at various points in my life.
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#5. Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.' I laughed a lot, and the romance got to me.
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#6. I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.
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#7. All the time travelling in the world can't make someone love you.
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#8. I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.
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#9. I'm certainly a young actor. I'm certainly those two things. Actually, I'm not even young anymore; I'm 29. So, I'm an actor.
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#10. Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.
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#11. I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.'
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#12. The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.
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#13. I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.
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#14. The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.
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#17. I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'
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#18. I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.
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#19. Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.
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#20. I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.
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#21. There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.
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#22. Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.
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#23. Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.
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#24. The worst thing as an actor is when you're not getting opportunities to try and show what you can do; the best thing is when you get material that really lets you express something and that you're excited about.
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#25. It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.
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#26. I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.
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#27. As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
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#28. I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.
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#29. I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'
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#30. My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
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#31. We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish in this remarkable ride.
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#32. There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.
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#34. People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?
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#35. I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special.
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#36. Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
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#37. I've gotten work based on how I look, and I've not gotten work based on how I look. It's all good.
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#38. Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.
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#39. In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.
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#40. My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'
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#41. Has anybody seen 'The Notebook' and not cried? I don't know, I don't know if that's the case. It sort of hangs around for a while.
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#42. I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
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#43. My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.
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#44. I've definitely enjoyed myself more on the projects where I've played a good person, rather than on the projects where I've played somebody who is morally compromised.
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#45. My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.
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#46. I do feel a wave come over me when I hear those two words, 'Star' and 'Wars,' said together. I feel tense, shut up, and stare into the middle distance.
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#48. Look at Cillian Murphy: 'Batman,' 'Tron' ... those are some heavy-hitting franchises. But he works his way around it. He manages to have a great career and a great life.
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#49. Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.
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#51. I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.
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#54. The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.
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#55. It's weird to be very good at something and not necessarily to want to do it.
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#56. I've got three brothers; I think all of them are good human beings.
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#57. I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot.
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#58. No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'
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#60. I'm that person in the bar who's like 'Can they turn the music down ? I would like to chat.' I don't like clothes. I'm terrible at all that stuff. I like sitting around and drinking a pint and gossiping or whatever.
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#61. The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.
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#62. I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.
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#63. I think I'm happiest when there are really talented people around.
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#64. As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different times a year.
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#65. When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.
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#66. If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.
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#67. Normally, in a film with lots of twists and turns, half of them don't make sense; they're just there for their own sakes.
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#68. Doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong - if I'm hungry or hot, I'm probably arguing with someone about something. Especially if that someone is rude.
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#69. I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place.
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#70. It's hard to get people up and out to shows, but 'The Walworth Farce' has masses of energy and will attract a crowd who don't always come to the theatre, which is great.
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#71. I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.
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#72. I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.
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#73. It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.
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#74. Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.
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#77. I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!
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#78. Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
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#79. I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap.
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#80. There's this thing that you're not meant to have too many children - for global warming, it's bad. But I know lots of crappy people, and I would rather that good people have lots of kids and outnumber the baddies.
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#81. I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.
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#82. I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.
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#83. 'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.
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#84. I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.
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