Domhnall Gleeson: There is this old thing that a lot of people say

Life is difficult for everyone, everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

Domhnall Gleeson

levels-of-life bad-day worry

I'm that person in the bar who's like 'Can they turn the music down ? I would like to chat.' I don't like clothes. I'm terrible at all that stuff. I like sitting around and drinking a pint and gossiping or whatever.

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stuff-i-like clothes drinking

People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?

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annoyed stuff people

You're supposed to take a second if life is going well, to enjoy it and not just move on with the rest of your day worrying about the next thing. And it's a really trite point in some ways. But it's bizarre how little I had done it at various points in my life.

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done worry moving

We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

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rough-times remarkable together

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

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looking-forward scary might

I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.

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being-irish proud mean

Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.

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handsome

All the time travelling in the world can’t make someone love you.

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one-love love-you world

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

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trying inspire thinking

It's weird to be very good at something and not necessarily to want to do it.

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very-good want

I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.

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growing-up strong song

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

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want littles people

There's this thing that you're not meant to have too many children - for global warming, it's bad. But I know lots of crappy people, and I would rather that good people have lots of kids and outnumber the baddies.

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kids children people

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

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news important people

I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.

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agents dad giving

I'm that person in the bar who's like, "Can they turn the music down? I would like to chat."

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turns bars persons

I've definitely enjoyed myself more on the projects where I've played a good person, rather than on the projects where I've played somebody who is morally compromised.

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good-person projects persons

I've got three brothers; I think all of them are good human beings.

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three brother thinking

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

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film world ideas

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.