Top 40 Barry Keoghan Quotes

I want stories that tackle things.

I’m always in touch with where I’m from.

I want a happy family.

Dior makes me look good, and I make Dior look good.

I want to play someone like Billy the Kid.

I don’t think you ever really get used to it, do you? There’s always another little level of shock in it and of being starstruck at the people you meet. And that’s the beauty of it: you’re always fascinated, because it’s not a normal thing to do, is it, this acting game?

Getting involved with ‘Black 47’ was like getting involved with ‘Dunkirk’ for me. I learned a lot. But ‘Black 47’ was my own history from my own country.

I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.

‘Intermission’ was my favourite film.

Acting is not a thing where I’m from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.

I just think the more you’re in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I’m doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

I can play younger. It’s better to be playing younger because you’ve got that experience, and it’s hard to play older when you’re younger.

I always believed that I could be one of the greatest actors of my generation.

It’s not often you get to sit in front of Nicole Kidman in your boxers with a big bowl of spaghetti.

I started getting interested in the craft and watching old movies, and they’re the ones that reach out to me the most – films like ‘Cool Hand Luke’ and ‘On the Waterfront.’ So I start watching all of these, and I was getting educated, and I started being interested in this acting thing, if that’s what they call it.

Anyone dying is not easy, but certainly not a mother. Me and my brother, we stuck together. The foster families were good to me, and then my nanny took me in.

I’ve been lucky to be educated by watching the old and the great movies, working with good filmmakers, and being educated on sets.

It is hard to keep your head sometimes. I just make sure I surround myself with good people.

With this acting and this lifestyle, your privacy does get taken a little.

People can get lost in the movie star world. They can’t check in with reality, whereas I live at home with me girl, surrounded by real people.

My nanny took me in at 12 with my brother, who is a year younger than me. We’re the closest brothers you’ll ever meet.

I’m trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers.

You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.

I’ve actually eaten in The Ivy in London. I love their shepherd’s pie.

Where I’m from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don’t just go, ‘Oh, I want to be an actor’. They’d laugh and joke about it.

I want to produce. I want to direct. I want to be my own camera man. I want my own boxing club. I have it all written down. I want to do everything.

All my foster homes were very good to me. But it’s still not a very nice experience. It’s only when you’re older, you realise: we were on our own in there. As kids, you don’t know what’s happening. You’re here. Then you’re in the next house. But the families were all very good to us.

It’s very important for me to show younger kids that when opportunities are there, you have to jump on them.

I have confidence. I don’t know where I got it from.

I want to not settle for one thing. Because I come from a place where I have nothing to lose.

Everyone wants to be Batman; I want to be Robin. I’ll make Robin cool. Make him legit.

I’m always wanting to do the impossible.

I’ve stayed friends with the boys I’ve known since I was 10.

I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, ‘Ah, why?’ Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, ‘This feels good!’

I was a mess-up in school, a big mess-up. I was into history and English, because there were always stories, like ‘Dracula’ and World War II. I’ve never read a book, though. Never.

I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.

My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.

I kick myself that I don’t speak Irish. Ah, man, I’d love to. I am going to learn.

I want stories where you either hate it or love it. I want to do movies like that, where it’s not show and tell, where it’s not, ‘This is it, and now you reveal the ending, and that’s that.’

After everything I’ve been through – the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, ‘I’m gonna just not try.’ I used it all as ammunition.