Top 100 Quotes About Gleeson
#1. How can you not love Jack Gleeson? He's amazing. He's the nicest guy.
Sophie Turner
#2. Don't get too comfortable out there in Hollywood, Gleeson," Piper said. Hedge snorted. "You kidding? These people make Aeolus look sane.
Rick Riordan
#3. Our early success, blessing that it was, made us complacent and we weren't sufficiently afraid of what came next. Sometimes having a little fear early saves one from experiencing a big fear later on. [Al Gleeson in THE HALCYON DISLOCATION]
Peter Kazmaier
#4. DIE!" Gleeson Hedge dropped directly behind Orion, smacking his baseball bat over the giant's head so hard the Louisville Slugger cracked in half.
Rick Riordan
#5. I'd just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhri Conroy. And Ruaidhri, I'm sorry that you couldn't be here tonight, but I hope next time they let you into the country.
Martin McDonagh
#7. Yeah! Bring it on lake!" -Coach Gleeson Hedge
Rick Riordan
#8. I should've blown more stuff up. -Coach Gleeson Hedge
Rick Riordan
#9. Hey, wake up." Reyna's eyes fluttered open. Gleeson Hedge was leaning over her, shaking her shoulder. "We got trouble." His grave tone got her blood moving. "What is it?" She struggled to sit up. "Ghosts? Monsters?" Hedge scowled. "Worse. Tourists.
Rick Riordan
#11. Are there people to aspire to? Can people be strong enough to withstand all of this disillusionment? Maybe the time is right for people to emerge from the easy cynicism and try to get back to a place where we can actually believe in people and trust people to have proper motivations.
Brendan Gleeson
#12. I think I'm happiest when there are really talented people around.
Domhnall Gleeson
#13. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#14. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#15. I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'
Brendan Gleeson
#16. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#18. No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'
Domhnall Gleeson
#19. I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
Jack Gleeson
#20. I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.
Brendan Gleeson
#21. I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
Jack Gleeson
#22. I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot.
Domhnall Gleeson
#23. I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
Jack Gleeson
#24. I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.
Brendan Gleeson
#25. Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
Jack Gleeson
#26. I've got three brothers; I think all of them are good human beings.
Domhnall Gleeson
#27. It's weird to be very good at something and not necessarily to want to do it.
Domhnall Gleeson
#28. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#31. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#32. Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.
Jack Gleeson
#34. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#35. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#36. The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.
Brendan Gleeson
#37. I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
Brendan Gleeson
#39. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#40. My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.
Domhnall Gleeson
#41. You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.
Brendan Gleeson
#42. It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
Brendan Gleeson
#43. I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
Jack Gleeson
#44. Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.
Brendan Gleeson
#45. Destiny has ordained that from the day of my birth I should never know a whole happy day.' Datini's meticulously kept account books span almost fifty years and clearly show the transition from single- to double-entry bookkeeping. His
Jane Gleeson-White
#46. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#47. Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and beauty of the starry heavens above, and rather inspect, admire and foster the moral law within.
Jack Gleeson
#48. What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.
Brendan Gleeson
#49. Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent.
Jack Gleeson
#50. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#51. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#52. I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
Brendan Gleeson
#53. 'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.
Domhnall Gleeson
#54. Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
Brendan Gleeson
#55. I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.
Domhnall Gleeson
#56. I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
Brendan Gleeson
#57. I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.
Domhnall Gleeson
#58. I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
Jack Gleeson
#59. Yeah, well. I don't try to be awesome. It just comes natural.
Rick Riordan
#60. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#61. I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap.
Domhnall Gleeson
#62. Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
Domhnall Gleeson
#63. I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.
Jack Gleeson
#64. I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!
Domhnall Gleeson
#66. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#67. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#68. It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.
Domhnall Gleeson
#69. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#70. I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.
Domhnall Gleeson
#71. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#72. I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place.
Domhnall Gleeson
#73. Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.
Jack Gleeson
#74. I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.
Brendan Gleeson
#75. This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
Kerry Gleeson
#76. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#77. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#78. If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.
Domhnall Gleeson
#79. When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.
Domhnall Gleeson
#80. When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love.
Brendan Gleeson
#81. Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.
Jack Gleeson
#83. Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
Jack Gleeson
#84. The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
Jack Gleeson
#85. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#86. I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.
Brendan Gleeson
#87. I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
Jack Gleeson
#88. I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.
Domhnall Gleeson
#89. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#90. I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.
Brendan Gleeson
#91. I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be ... but that isn't necessarily all there is.
Brendan Gleeson
#92. I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.
Domhnall Gleeson
#93. 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!'
Domhnall Gleeson
#94. I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.
Brendan Gleeson
#95. If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!
Jack Gleeson
#96. Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.
Jack Gleeson
#99. 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.
Domhnall Gleeson
#100. I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
Jack Gleeson
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