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" Every actor is like, 'I could direct!' "

Domhnall Gleeson

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through. "

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" My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work. "

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" Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at. "

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" Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father! "

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" I've gotten work based on how I look, and I've not gotten work based on how I look. It's all good. "

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" 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. "

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" 'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it. "

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" The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets. "

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" When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself. "

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" I'm not built like a leading man. "

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