"I gave up before birth."

-- Samuel Beckett

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“Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.”
“Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.”
“If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.”
“I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.”

Source : "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.
“I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.”

Source : Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.
“I wasnt born with a silver spoon in my mouth”
“If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.”
“We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.”

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