Domhnall Gleeson Quotes
We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.
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.
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
I'm that person in the bar who's like, "Can they turn the music down? I would like to chat."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
