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" I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Mine
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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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" Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it. "
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" My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them. "
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" When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous. "
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" I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place. "
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" Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Really, all I worry about is the work in hand. "
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" I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident. "
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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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Nobody
Me
" I don't go to premieres I'm not involved in. "
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Go
" I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent. "
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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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Special Place
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" I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification! "
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" I'm certainly a young actor. I'm certainly those two things. Actually, I'm not even young anymore; I'm 29. So, I'm an actor. "
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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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Yourself
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" Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important. "
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" There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too. "
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" Fail again, fail better. "
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" If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams. "
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" I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close. "
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" I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature. "
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" There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not. "
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" I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special. "
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" It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job. "
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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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" I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot. "
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