Nobody knows anybody. Not that well. Gabriel Byrne More Quotes by Gabriel Byrne More Quotes From Gabriel Byrne I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. Gabriel Byrne break-outcausesdark I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best Ive ever done it. Gabriel Byrne playkidsthinking I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation. Gabriel Byrne finalsdyingfootball Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good. Gabriel Byrne thumbscharacterpeople When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either. Gabriel Byrne peculiarcountryamerica I mean, he was kind of a joke in that people would say, ‘That’s Kevin,’ but nobody really understood the depth of his predations, it was only years later that we began to understand that [filming] was closed down for a particular reason and that was because of inappropriate sexual behavior by Spacey. Gabriel Byrne latest-headlines I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives. Gabriel Byrne lookthinkimportantreligion I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose. Gabriel Byrne timelovehistorytravel Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer. Gabriel Byrne personexperiencerealprayer O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible. Gabriel Byrne challengecomplexgreatalways I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil. Gabriel Byrne comeforcechurchevil I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way. Gabriel Byrne neverdramawayschool When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work. Gabriel Byrne likeyouenergywork We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside. Gabriel Byrne walkyouangrytime I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it. Gabriel Byrne meyoumysterytruth Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global. Gabriel Byrne saynowpoliticsbusiness Corporations are the new dictators. Gabriel Byrne dictatorsnewcorporations
