Iain Glen Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
June 24, 1961

Iain Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish film, television, and stage actor. Glen is best known for his roles as Dr. Alexander Isaacs / Tyrant in the Resident Evil films and as Ser Jorah Mormont on Game of Thrones. Other notable roles include John Hanning Speke in Mountains of the Moon, Sir Richard Carlisle in Downton Abbey, the title role in Jack Taylor and Jarrod Slade in Cleverman.

Also known as Stage Actor, Film Actor

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

Iain Glen
- Time
- Giving
- Energy
I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

Iain Glen
- I Can
- Director
- Watch

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

Iain Glen
- You
- Foolish
- Smoke
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

Iain Glen
I'm too much of a big kid.

Iain Glen
- Kid
- Big
- Too Much
You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

Iain Glen
- You
- Small
- Actor
I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

Iain Glen
- Know
- Cancer
- Lung
My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

Iain Glen
- Me
- Wife
- Child

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

Iain Glen
- Woman
- Look
- Modesty
I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

Iain Glen
- Work
- Feel
- Actor
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

Iain Glen
- You
- Film
- Budget
I don't crave Hollywood.

Iain Glen
- Hollywood
- Crave
I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

Iain Glen
- People
- Actor
- Finding