Aidan Gillen Quotes
In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.
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Hollywood is kind of a bad world.
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He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.
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In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
