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" I was so hungry when I started attempting acting. Not even to be a professional. Just to find out if I could act. "
Liam Cunningham
Hungry
Find
Professional
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" I live an odd existence. I dip into bizarre, very expensive worlds, and then I'm back with a bang to reality, and I put the bins out. "
Liam Cunningham
Live
Existence
Out
" I've never done a big series like 'Game of Thrones' before. All I knew was that it was HBO, and I'd seen what they had done with 'The Sopranos' and 'The Wire.' But when I started reading the script, it was a no-brainer. Yes, yes, yes. Gold. Every time I turned the page. "
Liam Cunningham
Gold
Done
Game
" If you're doing movies on a set... many times, I've shot the end of a movie in the first week of shooting. Because of locations or budgets or actors' availability. "
Liam Cunningham
Week
You
Shooting
" I don't feel superior because I think there's no God. Actually, I would love to be able to go, 'Well, the world hasn't been kind to me, but there's something good around the corner, because the Man has a plan.' I wish I believed that. There's wonderful comfort in that. "
Liam Cunningham
God
World
Think
" The way I view drama is life with the boring bits taken out. "
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Life
Drama
Way
" I've found that the older I get, the more spontaneous I become. "
Liam Cunningham
More
Found
Spontaneous
" The superheroes have taken over all the screens in the world. And good luck to them: they're making a lot of money for a lot of people. But the studios are going to become victims of their own success. People are going to get bored with that stuff. "
Liam Cunningham
Good
Luck
Money
" The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that. "
Liam Cunningham
Society
Better
Mirror
" Good luck to you if you're lucky enough to have faith. Some of us aren't lucky enough. My mother has great faith and finds great comfort in it, and I'm jealous of her! "
Liam Cunningham
You
Good
Great
" If I was offered the choice of an award for best actor or best supporting actor, I would go for supporting actor. "
Liam Cunningham
Go
Would
Choice
" I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission. "
Liam Cunningham
Need
My Life
Mission
" There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way. "
Liam Cunningham
Character
Life
Way
" I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play. "
Liam Cunningham
Family
Experience
Theatre
" The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society. "
Liam Cunningham
Art
Up
Writing
" One of the biggest guys I worked with was Sean Connery. People like Sean, Michael Caine, Denzel Washington, they've been going for a long time, and not for nothing. They want to get this job right, and they realise the weight of responsibility on their shoulders. "
Liam Cunningham
Long
Job
Time
" I'm an inner city man, born and bred. "
Liam Cunningham
Inner City
Born
Bred
" I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on the back of 'The Irish Times,' and I went along for an audition, very pragmatically, to see if I could do it or not. "
Liam Cunningham
Movies
Loved
Back
" I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! And only when I started did I think, 'Sheesh, what have I gotten into?' I had to go after it fully; I just had to. "
Liam Cunningham
Distraction
Bored
Acting
" There's an old actor's saying about how you don't work with children or animals. I disagree with both of them. Some of the best times I've ever had were working with kids because there's an honesty to them. "
Liam Cunningham
Saying
Children
Work
" What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people. "
Liam Cunningham
Struggles
Compassion
Empathy
" I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life. "
Liam Cunningham
Hate
Life
Money
" Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that's the best place to solve all the world's problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear. "
Liam Cunningham
Culture
Cafe
World
" I love my arthouse films, and I love taking a chance. "
Liam Cunningham
I Love
Chance
Taking
" I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my kids have gotten used to wearing shoes.' "
Liam Cunningham
People
Shoes
You
" Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years. "
Liam Cunningham
Past
Same
Lived
" I think HBO and a couple of the other cable channels in America are making some of the best television that's ever been made. "
Liam Cunningham
Best
America
Been
" I love onions. I cook with them all the time. "
Liam Cunningham
Onions
Time
I Love
" You have to look for story. That's obvious. If that's not on the page, you can forget it. But I also read whatever character I'm being offered. And if you can cut them out without it affecting the story, then I say no straight away. "
Liam Cunningham
Say
You
Character
" I suppose I am a bit of rough. I'm originally from Coolock: I'm rough around the edges. "
Liam Cunningham
Edges
Am
Around
" When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The stuff that interests me is the work. "
Liam Cunningham
Go
Rest
Me