Aidan Gillen Quotes

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Aidan Gillen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: April 24, 1968

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HonestyThinkAmericanTelevision

In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris.

Joaquim Barbosa

PowerPoliticsWeirdFriendsHelp

I just don't really like going to the gym that much, and I love eating.

Jessie James Decker

LoveEatingGymGoingJustLike

When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.

Jesse Ball

FatherMotherGreatChildhoodChild

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

FreedomAnxiety

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Roberto Cavalli

MusicFamousSpecialReasonBecause

What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

Rupert Murdoch

ChildrenHealthGovernmentPeople

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

Mary Garden

LifeChildrenPastChildHurtKarma

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

Jonathan Dee

BetterGetting BetterFeelLearn

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

Craig Brown

GreatMeLookingGolfYouHouse

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

Allegra Versace

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Most private-sector folks don't get a pension.

Tim Griffin

GetMostPensionFolks

I tried to interest my daughter in dancing, but she didn't take to it. As a five-year-old, she got lost on the way to her first class. After that she didn't go to dance class again.

Nita Ambani

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