Brian Gleeson Quotes

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

I really like to act, and I really like to perform. I enjoy producing as well.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

Acting is my first love and I want to stick to it. But I would be happy to offer my inputs to a script, if asked.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

I have visions and ideas about different things. Other actors just inspire you, so writing is something I would love to do more of. I would really be interested in doing something in that vein, writing something for myself or someone else and directing for sure.

I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even a child. I wrote my first play when I was, like, seven years old. That was me - a writer - for years.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.