Quotes by Gabriel Byrne - Page 1

Corporations are the new dictators.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Corporations
Dictators
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Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Coen Brothers
Nobody Knows
Wells
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Great Times
Thinking
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The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Drama School
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Break Out
Brooding
Causes
Dark
Image
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Sorted
Truthfully
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Identity
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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 / Actor
Divorce
Progressive
Husbands
Rule
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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 / Actor
Divorce
Husband
Rights
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I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Catholic
Catholic Church
Conclusion
Conversations
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
England
Ireland
Forth
Global
Local
Parochial
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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 / Actor
Inaccessible
Complex
Deeply
Extent
Great Extent
Presents
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I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
New York
Kevin
One Day
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Devil
Enjoyed
Fun
Thinking
Everybody
Bit
Priest
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Acting
Cinematic
Confusing
Reality
Extremely
Suppose
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I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Attention
Bears
Gregarious
Pay
Bear
Noticed
Pays
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I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Men
People
Way
Touch
Life Myself Man
Greatest Thing
Human Being
Serve
Touch People
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Bad People
Character
Interpreting
People
Thumbs
Good Character People
Good Character Bad
Portray
Rule
Thumb
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What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Big Deal
Nelson
Song
Stage
Think Big
Thinking
Life I Am My Life
Content
Sang
No Big Deal
Precious
Reached
Willie
Willie Nelson
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Artistic
Occasional
People
Way
Your People Way
Your Keep People
Employ
Extent
People Way Will
Films
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Levels
Narrative
Reality
Spiders
Two
Version
Complex
Poisoned
Spider
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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Alone
Born
Charlie
Giving
Illusion
Said
Die
Anything
Between
Charlie Sheen
Cling
Either
Give
Sheen
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Birthday
Happy Birthday
Smile
Mean
People
Realization
Sound
Life Love Great
Love Me
My Life
Presents
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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Catholic
Catholic Church
Constant
Peter
Resistance
Ages
Innately
Ironically
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I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Belief
Comfort
Disrespect
Terribly
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best Ive ever done it.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Kids
Play
Thinking
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Conversation
Drowning
Dying
Finals
Football
Football Match
Attended
Bedside
Final
Hospital
Match
Ward
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Best
Afternoon
Done
Ex Wife
Serendipity
Theater
Two
Life Done My Life
Life Best My Life
Then
Had
Life Best Done
Did
Days
Came
Ever
My Life
Spent
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This notion that Americans have. . . that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead - that's very pervasive in the culture, it goes very deep into how they see themselves here.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Culture
Order
Very Deep
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Glimpse
Human Beings
Offers
Acted
Beings
Headed
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From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Love Yourself
Moon
People
Anybody Else
Save
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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 that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
America
Country
Peculiar
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The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Cinema
Drawing
Village
Fails
Opens
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Heavy
Terribly
Listened
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I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Agree
Complexity
Less Is More
Stillness
Inside
Totally
Less
Camera
Convey
Michael
Striving
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Disrespectful
Photograph
Photography
Thinking
Want
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Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Children
Fighting
Mother
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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 term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".
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Dark
Eggs
Thinking
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Angry
Cry
Extremes
Time Thinking Walk
For Example
Registering
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Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Men
Hurt
Years
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I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Christianity
Cost
Paganism
Time Travel
Love Time History
Arrival
Suppose
Prior
Third
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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 / Actor
Allowing
Brilliant
Gary
Cooper
Gene
Hackman
Opposed
Sending
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I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Baby
Country
Fighting
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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 sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
Gabriel Byrne / Actor
Norway
Protected
Sophisticated
Apart
Attached
Complex
Great Deal
Label
Speaking
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