Brendan Gleeson Quotes

Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.

Brendan Gleeson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

Jill Scott

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For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Joan Miro

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I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

Anna Deavere Smith

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I always take bold moves. So it can have great return but with great risk.

Masayoshi Son

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I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

Lou Reed

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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

Josh Turner

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I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.

Debra Wilson

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You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

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I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.

Antoine Fuqua

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I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

Antony Gormley

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I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

Aubrey O'Day

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I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

Payne Stewart

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