Quotes from Domhnall Gleeson

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.

The Coen brothers are amazing; they're special.

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'

No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'

'Star Wars' is different to anything I've done before.

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.

In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.

I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.'

I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap.

Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.

I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.

Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.