Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

In theatre, I get comedy or nice lead roles. I don't understand a grey or negative role.

I did this movie, 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' - I truly play a horrible, horrible individual in that - and I would occasionally go to the theater and watch what people's responses were, and they would laugh. He makes jokes, and people would respond to him in a human way. Then I've really done my job if I've humanized a really horrible person.

With 'Wicked,' I was stepping into a role that I didn't make so that felt like I had more boundaries then I did with 'Carousel.'

What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

He's a good, brave and honourable soldier.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.

I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the reasons why they do what they do. We're all people, and go through similar emotions.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

So many people say, "I'm a good person!" Like, why are you a good person? To be a good person you have to actively be good.

I've never done coke or anything, and I've never played a character who has, so I don't know whether I would actually try coke if I had to play a character who took coke.

You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.

I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda.

When you believe in something and you are a good person, good things happen.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

You never know how people are gonna receive you and especially a character that's so close to the fans in type...

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.