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" It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Job
Realized
Stage
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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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" It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible. "
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" The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets. "
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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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" 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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Life
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" I don't go to premieres I'm not involved in. "
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Go
" Fail again, fail better. "
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Better
Fail
" 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 like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too. "
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Gritty
Too
Thrillers
" 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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Good
Write
" When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself. "
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Myself
Way
Younger
" 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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Risks
Acting
Sometimes
" I find looking forward scary because you might die. "
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Looking
Die
Find
" I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it. "
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Head
Audience
Go
" I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap. "
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Day
Months
One Day
" I'm not built like a leading man. "
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Like
Leading
Leading Man
" I like cashew nuts. "
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Nuts
Like
" 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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Look
How
" I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it. "
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Like
Really
Life
" I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff. "
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Going
Actor
Working
" If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams. "
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World
Person
Chemistry
" I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature. "
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People
Stand
Working
" 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. "
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Got
Special
Part
" 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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Doing
Bad
Important
" 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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Career
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" Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at. "
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Really
Handsome
" My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work. "
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Better
" I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot. "
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Think
I Think
" 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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Harry Potter
Ever
Nobody