Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Fail again, fail better. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Again
Better
Fail
Related Quotes:
" It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Job
Realized
Stage
" Every actor is like, 'I could direct!' "
Domhnall Gleeson
Like
Could
Every
" I like cashew nuts. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Nuts
Like
" I find looking forward scary because you might die. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Looking
Die
Find
" Really, all I worry about is the work in hand. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Worry
About
Hand
" I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Bit
Over
Little Bit
" Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Go
Nightmare
Down
" No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.' "
Domhnall Gleeson
Because
Nobody
Me
" 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. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Got
Special
Part
" Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.' "
Domhnall Gleeson
Hill
Cup
Fan
" I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Day
Months
One Day
" '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. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Work
Time
Good
" 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. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Look
You
Team
" Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Where
Really
Handsome
" 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. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Me
Think
Time
" 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. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Way
Career
Great
" I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Going
Actor
Working
" I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature. "
Domhnall Gleeson
People
Stand
Working
" 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. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Notebook
Case
Know
" The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Risks
Acting
Sometimes
" I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close. "
Domhnall Gleeson
I Feel
Feel
Up
" In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Playing
Where
Scene
" Normally, in a film with lots of twists and turns, half of them don't make sense; they're just there for their own sakes. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Film
Just
Half
" I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Head
Audience
Go
" I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Mine
Which
Dream
" 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. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Job
Tell
Talk
" The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Lights
Jets
Something
" I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Gritty
Too
Thrillers
" 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. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Want
Yourself
You
" The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Dreams
True
Really