Words matter. These are the best Domhnall Gleeson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.
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.
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it’s also necessary and important.
The idea of having dreams that don’t come true is really terrifying.
Doesn’t matter if I’m right or wrong – if I’m hungry or hot, I’m probably arguing with someone about something. Especially if that someone is rude.
‘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.
Every actor is like, ‘I could direct!’
I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.
‘Punch-Drunk Love’ is my favorite movie.
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.
I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
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.
No one can give me advice on ‘Star Wars’ because nobody knows what I’m doing in ‘Star Wars.’
I tend to play ‘tortured’ a lot, whether it’s physically or emotionally.
It’s hard to get people up and out to shows, but ‘The Walworth Farce’ has masses of energy and will attract a crowd who don’t always come to the theatre, which is great.
I’d seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was – that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he’s always my favourite person in the movie.
I’m pretty lowbrow. It’s a failing.
It’s nice to sit down when you’re not working. I try to do it as often as possible.
The Coen brothers are amazing; they’re special.
I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, ‘Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I’m doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.’
I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.
The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.
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.
Conventionally handsome is not really where I’m at.
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.
I’m pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we’re very close.
I got very lucky with ‘Harry Potter.’ I got that role because I’m a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just because I’m doing ‘Star Wars’ doesn’t mean that’ll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.
Though rom-coms aren’t necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of ‘Notting Hill.’ I laughed a lot, and the romance got to me.
