Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.

No one gave me an opportunity, which I desperately needed in my struggling days. If there is one thing that I have learned during that period is that you need to create an opportunity yourself if you want to live your dream.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

When there is no work, I create my own.

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.

Yeah, I just handle my business.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

Work harder than everyone, be patient, and just know that if you're going to do something on your own, you're gonna have to feel some pain.