Aidan Gillen Quotes
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.
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Naked dudes are inherently funny.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
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If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.
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A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
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I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
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For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.
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As an ardent supporter of the Nietzschean conception of the eternal recurrence, I firmly believe that one cannot validate the totality of a life unless one accepts and embraces all the experiences that comprise it. That said, I sometimes wish I'd gone to film school.
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I don't do a lot of reflecting. I'm usually about getting on with it.
