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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
-
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
-
It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
-
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
-
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.
-
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
-
I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
-
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.
-
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
-
It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
-
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.
-
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
-
When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
-
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
-
I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
-
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
-
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.
-
It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
-
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.
-
Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
-
I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.
-
Nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.
-
Men don't pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
-
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.
