Domhnall Gleeson

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No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.
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I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.
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I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.
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My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'
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I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.
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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.
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Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.
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I don't go to premieres I'm not involved in.
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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.
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Collection: Bad Day
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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.
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Collection: Together
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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.
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Collection: Drinking
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People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?
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Collection: People
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I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.
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Collection: Mean
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You're supposed to take a second if life is going well, to enjoy it and not just move on with the rest of your day worrying about the next thing. And it's a really trite point in some ways. But it's bizarre how little I had done it at various points in my life.
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Collection: Moving
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All the time travelling in the world can’t make someone love you.
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Collection: Love You
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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.
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Collection: Children
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It's weird to be very good at something and not necessarily to want to do it.
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Collection: Want
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I'm that person in the bar who's like, "Can they turn the music down? I would like to chat."
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Collection: Bars
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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.
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Collection: Good Person
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People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.
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Collection: Mother
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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.
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Collection: Old Things
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I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.
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Collection: Song
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I've got three brothers; I think all of them are good human beings.
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Collection: Brother
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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.
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Collection: Ideas
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I think I'm happiest when there are really talented people around.
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Collection: Thinking
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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.
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Collection: Teacher
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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.
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Collection: Years