Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Domhnall Gleeson
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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot.
I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place.
Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.
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.
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.
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.
Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'
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.
I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.
I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap.
Really, all I worry about is the work in hand.
I find looking forward scary because you might die.
The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.
I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!
Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.'
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.
I'm not built like a leading man.
My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'
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.
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!'
I don't go to premieres I'm not involved in.
I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.
'Punch-Drunk Love' is my favorite movie.
It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.
Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.
When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.
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.
There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.
I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.
I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.
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.
I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special.
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.'
I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.
I've gotten work based on how I look, and I've not gotten work based on how I look. It's all good.
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.
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.
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.
I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.
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.
It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.
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.
In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.
If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.
I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.
The Coen brothers are amazing; they're special.
Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.
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.
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'
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.
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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