Friel Quotes

#1. Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

Garry Hynes

#2. I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Anna Friel

#3. Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

Anna Friel

#4. I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

Anna Friel

#5. Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

Anna Friel

#6. As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

Anna Friel

#7. When we break a law (lie, steal, murder, fornicate, blaspheme, lust, hate, covet, gossip, dishonor authority) we are striking out at God's character and in essence saying, "I hate who you are." That is why sin is exceedingly sinful (Rom. 7:13).

Todd Friel

#8. If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

Anna Friel

#9. I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

Anna Friel

#10. I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.

Brian Friel

#11. When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

Anna Friel

#12. Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

Anna Friel

#13. In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.

Anna Friel

#14. I've been on sets where the turnaround is so fast and the budget so small that the actors have been asked to speed things up and save money by changing in the public toilets. There's no room for vanity at times like that. It's the best way: get on with it!

Anna Friel

#15. Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

Anna Friel

#16. The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

Brian Friel

#17. Some people struggle and fight so fiercely at one level of existence that they prevent themselves from moving to the next level of existence where the waters

John C. Friel

#18. The biblical math could not be simpler; if a person who professes to be a Christian lives like the devil, he is of the devil.

Todd Friel

#19. For me personally, everything is on a kiss.

Anna Friel

#20. Instead of beseeching men to be reconciled to God, we find ministers wasting their time in giving Sunday lectures about all kinds of subjects. Rome is burning and Nero is playing his fiddle. Souls are perishing and minsters are amusing them.

Todd Friel

#21. Never forget, God is more interested in our holiness than He is in our happiness. The next time you feel the sting of God's correction, ask yourself the question, "Of what do I need to repent?" When you do, God will forgive. That is the way He is.

Todd Friel

#22. No matter how long the sun may linger on his long and weary journey, at length evening comes with its sacred song.

Brian Friel

#23. Turning on the lights doesn't make cockroaches appear; the light merely reveals their presence. Similarly, college does not cause anyone to become an unbeliever; college merely reveals that a person was never a genuine believer to begin with.

Todd Friel

#24. When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it.

Anna Friel

#25. Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

Anna Friel

#26. Judge not lest ye be judged" has become the battle cry not only for biblically illiterate secularists, but for professing evangelicals as well. Postmodern hypersensitivity is not a malady merely for unbelievers; Christians are downright allergic to judging.

Todd Friel

#27. It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

Anna Friel

#28. It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Brian Friel

#29. We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.

Anna Friel

#30. I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man.

Anna Friel

#31. We also hate lying because it is more than just fibbing, it is a personal slight. It is the liar's way of saying, "I don't respect you." That is precisely what we tell God when we lie. Lying is our special way of saying to God, "I hate the truth. I hate you.

Todd Friel

#32. Eating at home is important for us, because we eat out so much when we're away. When I'm at home I cook a lot and we eat pretty healthily. I'm not a massive vegetable fan - I've got better since I discovered how to undercook them.

Anna Friel

#33. To remember everything is a form of madness.

Brian Friel

#34. Even if I did speak Irish, I'd always be considered an outsider here, wouldn't I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won't it? The private core will always be ... hermetic, won't it?

Brian Friel

#35. I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.

Brian Friel

#36. People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Anna Friel

#37. People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.

Brian Friel

#38. But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.

Anna Friel

#39. Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Anna Friel

#40. I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

Anna Friel

#41. Are you still trying to please God with your own works? Isaiah makes it clear, your efforts cannot purchase what you need. You need living water. You need Jesus.

Todd Friel

#42. David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

Anna Friel

#43. Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with tomorrows. It is our response to mud cabins and a diet of potatoes; our only method of replying to ... inevitabilities.

Brian Friel

#44. I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

Anna Friel

#45. It is safe to say that the majority of evangelical churches today are busy teaching their flock how to be better goats, but they are not preaching Bible-centered messages that grow religious affections.

Todd Friel

#46. The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

Anna Friel

#47. We should always judge with a humble attitude acknowledging that any correct understanding we have of the Bible is a gift from God.

Todd Friel

#48. I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.

Anna Friel

#49. When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though ...

Anna Friel

#50. I've never been onstage in my life.

Anna Friel

#51. These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

Anna Friel

#52. There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry.

Anna Friel

#53. You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

Anna Friel

#54. I was just disciplined. I knew I had to get back into shape after six weeks for the film Goal II, but I cheated in the end - I wore a corset. I loved my pregnancy, I blossomed. I felt goddess-like and very secure. I found it comforting to have a little thing growing inside me, and very calming.

Anna Friel

#55. And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Anna Friel

#56. I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

Anna Friel

#57. Every atheist who believes in morality, gravity, and does math is a closeted believer.

Todd Friel

#58. For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

Anna Friel

#59. It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

Anna Friel

#60. The next time an unbeliever tells you they would believe in God "if He would just do a miracle," you will know that is not true. Miracles do not convert people, God converts people.

Todd Friel

#61. It is not a matter of how much you train, but of how you train. - RICK NILES, TRIATHLON COACH

Joe Friel

#62. Confusion is not an ignoble condition

Brian Friel

#63. God created places and things in the Old Testament to teach us about Jesus in the New Testament. These pictures are so simple, even a child can understand them. God graciously babbled at us so we can learn complex truths.

Todd Friel

#64. We don't need "trip to heaven" books. We have an actual God-ordained vision of heaven and future events.

Todd Friel

#65. But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand - it can happen that a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of ... fact.

Brian Friel

#66. My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.

Anna Friel

#67. God's wrath and love are most vividly on display at the Cross. If you ever doubt God's settled anger at sin, look at the Cross. If you ever doubt how kind, good, and loving God is, look at the Cross.

Todd Friel