Domhnall Gleeson quotes:

Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

Life is difficult for everyone, everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.'

Punch-Drunk Love' is my favorite movie.

Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.

Look at Cillian Murphy: 'Batman,' 'Tron'... those are some heavy-hitting franchises. But he works his way around it. He manages to have a great career and a great life.

I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.

Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

The Coen brothers are amazing; they're special.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.

'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.

I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot.

There's this thing that you're not meant to have too many children - for global warming, it's bad. But I know lots of crappy people, and I would rather that good people have lots of kids and outnumber the baddies.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.

I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.

You're supposed to take a second if life is going well, to enjoy it and not just move on with the rest of your day worrying about the next thing. And it's a really trite point in some ways. But it's bizarre how little I had done it at various points in my life.

The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.

Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it.

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Has anybody seen 'The Notebook' and not cried? I don't know, I don't know if that's the case. It sort of hangs around for a while.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.

It's weird to be very good at something and not necessarily to want to do it.

I'm that person in the bar who's like 'Can they turn the music down ? I would like to chat.' I don't like clothes. I'm terrible at all that stuff. I like sitting around and drinking a pint and gossiping or whatever.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?

I'm that person in the bar who's like, "Can they turn the music down? I would like to chat."

I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.

Weâ??re all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish in this remarkable ride.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

I think I'm happiest when there are really talented people around.

As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different times a year.

I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.

I've got three brothers; I think all of them are good human beings.

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

I've definitely enjoyed myself more on the projects where I've played a good person, rather than on the projects where I've played somebody who is morally compromised.