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" 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
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The worst thing as an actor is when you're not getting opportunities to try and show what you can do; the best thing is when you get material that really lets you express something and that you're excited about. "
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" I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place. "
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Over
Little Bit
" 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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Anymore
" I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine. "
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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'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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Decision
Nature
" I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing. "
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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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Work
Look
How
" I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff. "
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" I'm not built like a leading man. "
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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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" Fail again, fail better. "
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" I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot. "
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" It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible. "
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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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" In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character. "
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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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" '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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" 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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" I don't go to premieres I'm not involved in. "
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