Top 30 Liam Cunningham Quotes

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.

I think everybody should have an interest in peace prevailing and the ridiculousness, the bestiality of war. I don’t have any time for that. Anybody pulling a trigger is wrong. There is no right in war.

I love my arthouse films, and I love taking a chance.

I still say I have no interest in being an actor – I just love acting.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

I get that people are worried about their mortgages and bills that have to be paid. They don’t have time to worry about the Syrian refugees, and I get that. The thing about it is, when it gets worse and worse and worse and down the line, it’s no longer restricted to these places.

You always have to have a bit of fun if somebody is dead in a scene. That’s a red rag to a bull for an actor. You do a little poking. You do things to annoy the actor. It’s your job. You have to utilize the opportunity. You have to get through the day.

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.

The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.

I suppose I am a bit of rough. I’m originally from Coolock: I’m rough around the edges.

I’ve got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission.

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.

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.

I’ve spent a lot of years waiting for the right thing to come in – and now, after ‘Thrones,’ there’s a possibility that I could actually have a hand in getting something made.

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.

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.

I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn’t even been in a school play.

I love onions. I cook with them all the time.

I was an electrician, and now I’m in ‘Electric Dreams.’ It’s almost bizarre.

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.

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.’

I’d always admired Sean Connery. Even though I wonder about some of his choices, I like him even in bad movies.

Let’s just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I’ve lived in the same house for the past 30 years.

I’m an inner city man, born and bred.

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.

The best kind of television should mess with your head.

I don’t consider myself – and I hope I’m never going to be – a ‘movie star.’ I’d like to be called an actor.

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!

I wasn’t interested in being an actor per se, but I liked acting, and I liked seeing what people would do.

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.