Brendan Gleeson Quotes

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

Brendan Gleeson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: March 29, 1955

Topics

MusicYouFindDownGoKind

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

Jerry Leiber

CultureBlackYouKnowMeanRight

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

John Hawkes

SchoolPerformanceHigh SchoolRight

My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.

John Lydon

LifeGoodGreatChallengeThinkSex

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

John Updike

ManYoungYoung ManBringPoemOff

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

Tom Shadyac

LoveKindnessSuccessCommunityTrue

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

Marvin Ammori

WomenLiveHistoryMenIndependence

I promote my own self-hatred.

Jonathan Ames

My OwnOwnPromote

The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

Drew Carey

TimeFoodDietYouVegetablesKnow

I'm always inspired to push forward.

Dianne Reeves

ForwardPushAlwaysInspired

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

Deb Caletti

LifeLoveLibraryMy LifeBeenMost

I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.

Brian Friel

IrishGrandparentsTwoWhoFourHad

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

Phil McGraw

FatYouBodyKnowNowKind

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