Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American…

— Aidan Gillen

Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

— Aidan Gillen

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me…

— Aidan Gillen

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly…

— Aidan Gillen

Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and…

— Aidan Gillen

I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

— Aidan Gillen

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when…

— Aidan Gillen

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

— Aidan Gillen

I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character…

— Aidan Gillen

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

— Aidan Gillen

There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the…

— Aidan Gillen

I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

— Aidan Gillen

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

— Aidan Gillen

It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

— Aidan Gillen

What is the key to life on Earth?

— Aidan Gillen

For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.

— Aidan Gillen

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in…

— Aidan Gillen

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the…

— Aidan Gillen

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to…

— Aidan Gillen

Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

— Aidan Gillen

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

— Aidan Gillen

I'm always attracted to bold, risk-taking scripts.

— Aidan Gillen

It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into…

— Aidan Gillen

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It…

— Aidan Gillen

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

— Aidan Gillen