Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Iain Glen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish actor Iain Glen.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Iain Glen

Iain Alan Sutherland Glen is a Scottish actor. Glen is best known for his roles as Dr. Alexander Isaacs/Tyrant in three films of the Resident Evil film series (2004–2016) and as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). Other notable roles include John Hanning Speke in Mountains of the Moon (1990), Larry Winters in Silent Scream (1990) for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor from the Berlin International Film Festival, Manfred Powell in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Brother John in Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), the title role in Jack Taylor (2010–2016), Sir Richard Carlisle in Downton Abbey (2011), James Willett in Eye in the Sky (2015), and Bruce Wayne in Titans (2019–present).

I'm too much of a big kid.
My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
I don't crave Hollywood. — © Iain Glen
I don't crave Hollywood.
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.
I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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