Brendan Gleeson Quotes

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

Brendan Gleeson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My experience from working with people is that you can have a conversation with someone or have a meeting with a group of people, and from that meeting will derive an answer to a question that no individual could have ever thought of by him or herself.

John C. Mather

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I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

John Garfield

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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

Mel Brooks

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Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that.

Robert J. Sawyer

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One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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Sometimes you just vibe with people. Some people have great energy, and you click with them, and you just wanna have a good time.

Rotimi

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Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap.

Mike Binder

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I work out a lot, but I like to do action sports. A lot of surfing, mountain-biking.

Julia Mancuso

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We were producing 'La La Land'... and then we weren't. So it was a very painful topic, but I'm happy the movie was as successful as it was. And, of course, I wish we had produced it.

Jason Blum

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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

Jason Silva

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I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

Dennis Franz

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When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very schooled in poetry, too. He'd studied the Beat poets, of course. I grew up in the British bohemian scene. Dylan grew up in the American bohemian scene. So I was very pleased to meet such a guy.

Donovan

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