I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share
I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically,… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
The person I was with was organizing my birthday party, and also happens to be a good friend of mine, who is a married… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.' — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
