Barry Keoghan Quotes

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?

I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

My education was an education by movies.

The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

I got a chance to meet Terrence Howard and hang out with him.

I've hung out with Jay-Z a couple of times, and he was awesome.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.

I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?'

'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.

I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid.

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.

I wanted to do 'Matrix' because when I saw the first one, I was in Paris, and I came out from the movie and said, 'Wow - I've never seen something like that; it's so incredible.'

I'm a huge fan of Morris Chestnut. I grew up with Morris, and I know him personally.

If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.

A lot of fans said they wanted to see me again. 'Baghban' is for them.

The first time I watched 'The Magnificent Seven' on TV on a Sunday afternoon, I knew it was going to be a different kind of western.