"My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe."

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Brendan Gleeson

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“I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.”
“The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”
“It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.”
“We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration”
“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.”
“I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.”
“I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.”
“Why getting angry? Getting angry doesnâ€™t solve anythingâ€¦ I donâ€™t like yelling and fighting and I canâ€™t quarrel, I prefer to let it dropâ€¦Â When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.”

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