Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

When I step up to that penalty spot, I know the consequences. They're the same whether I miss the first, second, third - or the 10th - it will be the same.

I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

'Don't worry about it, and you'll be great,' said nobody, ever.

I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.'

I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

I feel the pressure of getting something right.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

The pressure is always there to do my best. I feel happy that I have an audience that looks forward to my next project. I have to make sure that I deliver.

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.