Aidan Gillen Quotes

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

I think the parts that I played sort of broke the mould in terms of - you know, I played grey characters, the bad girl with a good heart, there was a good reason for her to be bad.

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

I've been incredibly blessed with good roles the past few years, but none of them compares to the experience of playing Ellsworth on 'Deadwood.' There are times when I've had as much fun or had comparably great material, but as a body of work, playing Ellsworth tops anything else in my lifetime.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it.

I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.