My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is. — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel.… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another one is… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
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… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into. — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running? — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
