Brendan Gleeson Quotes

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

It's awesome when people even notice that I'm an actor.

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.

If I'm everybody's hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I'm not able to come home? Then I failed.

I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.

You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

When memories fade, can one ever really return home?