Gabriel Byrne

When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to…

— Gabriel Byrne

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

— Gabriel Byrne

The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change…

— Gabriel Byrne

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church…

— Gabriel Byrne

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding…

— Gabriel Byrne

The person I was with was organizing my birthday party, and also happens to be a good friend of mine, who is…

— Gabriel Byrne

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because…

— Gabriel Byrne

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

— Gabriel Byrne

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…

— Gabriel Byrne

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But…

— Gabriel Byrne

No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

— Gabriel Byrne

Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who…

— Gabriel Byrne

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached…

— Gabriel Byrne

I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at…

— Gabriel Byrne

I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century,…

— Gabriel Byrne

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No…

— Gabriel Byrne

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on,…

— Gabriel Byrne

Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular…

— Gabriel Byrne

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed…

— Gabriel Byrne

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is…

— Gabriel Byrne

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

— Gabriel Byrne

The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is

— Gabriel Byrne

A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going…

— Gabriel Byrne

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of…

— Gabriel Byrne

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep…

— Gabriel Byrne