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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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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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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Every woman who proves that it is not about gender but about excellence paves the way.
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I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.
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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.
