Gillen Quotes

#1. Gillen and McKelvie shared their upcoming The Wicked + The Divine with me, and its amazing. Please tell your retailer this week to order!

Mark Waid

#2. The first issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a wonderful door to a seductive new world. Let's all go in!

Fabio Moon

#3. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to read more.

Rick Remender

#4. So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?"
"Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said.

Cinda Williams Chima

#5. Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

Aidan Gillen

#6. When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.

Aidan Gillen

#7. There's a lot of 'Game of Thrones' stuff used in a lot of pastiches. I don't know if I've seen a Lego 'Game of Thrones' yet, but there must be one. And there's an animated thing that's been going on for quite some time, and Littlefinger is a newsreader in it, and it's great.

Aidan Gillen

#8. Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

Kieron Gillen

#9. It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

Kieron Gillen

#10. The only great darkness I'm good at fighting is the one inside all of us. I'd like to light a fire inside everyone that can burn forever

Kieron Gillen

#11. I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your teens, you just want to be treated the same as everybody else. You just want people to see you as an actor and not as a kid.

Aidan Gillen

#12. I'm always attracted to bold, risk-taking scripts.

Aidan Gillen

#13. It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

Aidan Gillen

#14. have to wait. We can get married in a few weeks.

Cathy Gillen Thacker

#15. I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

Aidan Gillen

#16. I actually didn't see it coming. -Captain America

Kieron Gillen

#17. It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into a room full of 10 people and give it all away. In the pilot season in Los Angeles I've done that a couple of times.

Aidan Gillen

#18. I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

Aidan Gillen

#19. What is the key to life on Earth?

Aidan Gillen

#20. For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.

Aidan Gillen

#21. Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.

Kieron Gillen

#22. There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.

Aidan Gillen

#23. I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

Aidan Gillen

#24. I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

Kieron Gillen

#25. You forget who is master and who is student. It is your duty to learn what I know. It is my duty to learn what there is to teach.

Kieron Gillen

#26. Revolution is just change with ideological roots showing like bad peroxide.

Kieron Gillen

#27. I don't like DVD extras. No. Especially when they do things like put out alternative endings? I find all of that a little bizarre, because there should only be one ending. I don't like to be told, 'Oh, we could have had it this way,' for the director's cut.

Aidan Gillen

#28. It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

Aidan Gillen

#29. Becoming a father has made my life a lot more interesting. It's like everything slows down because time goes slower, and you notice that you're actually awake for so many more hours. Your waking hours elongate because you're doing things at a child's pace.

Aidan Gillen

#30. People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.

Aidan Gillen

#31. My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.

Aidan Gillen

#32. 'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Aidan Gillen

#33. I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

Aidan Gillen

#34. You can realize your dream, as long as it's got enough nightmare in it

Kieron Gillen

#35. When I speak, people know that in my gut, I'm bad. They feel better about being bad in their guts.

Kieron Gillen

#36. Do you want to be smart or do you want to know things?

Kieron Gillen

#37. When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

Kieron Gillen

#38. I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

Aidan Gillen

#39. There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War.' There's definitely an influence on 'Game of Thrones' from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies.

Aidan Gillen

#40. I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

Aidan Gillen

#41. I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

Aidan Gillen

#42. Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

Kieron Gillen

#43. It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

Aidan Gillen

#44. Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.

Aidan Gillen

#45. Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

Kieron Gillen

#46. We must empty purgatory with our prayers
St Padre Pio

Charlie Gillen

#47. I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

Aidan Gillen

#48. After all, nostalgia is an emotion for people with no future.

Kieron Gillen

#49. I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

Aidan Gillen

#50. I've enjoyed working on the TV series that I've worked on, in particular something like 'The Wire,' where there was so much time to tell the story and develop a character. I learned from that that it's best not to lay all your cards on the table straight away.

Aidan Gillen

#51. I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character any time soon, not because I wouldn't love to. I went up to Wales once and read for a film with Rhys Ifans, and haven't been asked back since. We did have a nice time on the train on the way back.

Aidan Gillen

#52. I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

Aidan Gillen

#53. I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

Aidan Gillen

#54. Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

Kieron Gillen

#55. It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

Aidan Gillen

#56. I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

Aidan Gillen

#57. 'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

Aidan Gillen

#58. I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

Aidan Gillen

#59. Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.

Aidan Gillen

#60. I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.

Aidan Gillen

#61. I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.

Aidan Gillen

#62. Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

Aidan Gillen

#63. A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass.

Kieron Gillen

#64. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

Kieron Gillen

#65. I don't do a lot of reflecting. I'm usually about getting on with it.

Aidan Gillen

#66. Belief is all-important in what we do.

You believe, it burns, flickers and dies. The ashes mix with the soil and we call them memories.

Kieron Gillen

#67. Look at Woden and his cheerily racist army of ethnic monocultured valkyrie fuck buddies.

Kieron Gillen

#68. Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die. Death is never pretty. (...) Is it that the good die young, or is it simply that the old turn bad and mad?

Kieron Gillen

#69. I try to keep my integrity. I don't want to be in 'Hello!' or on 'Celebrity Big Brother.'

Aidan Gillen

#70. In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.

Aidan Gillen

#71. I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

Aidan Gillen