Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women. — 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
