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" I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Bit
Over
Little Bit
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!' "
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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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" My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work. "
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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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" I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Time
Remember
" I find looking forward scary because you might die. "
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Die
Find
" Really, all I worry about is the work in hand. "
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About
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" I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap. "
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" I do feel a wave come over me when I hear those two words, 'Star' and 'Wars,' said together. I feel tense, shut up, and stare into the middle distance. "
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Two
" Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path. "
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Nightmare
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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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Amazing
" 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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" The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets. "
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" I like cashew nuts. "
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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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" 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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" The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying. "
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" I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make. "
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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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