Challenges Quote by Brendan Gleeson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

— Brendan Gleeson