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You just try to make it part of your DNA. That’s what the challenge is, really.

Brendan Gleeson

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.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Character Film Frustrating Stage Thinking Two
I’m aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Lasts Phenetocs Sound Years
So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents’ generation, a little bit more than now.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Deep Evidence Humility Kindness Play Quiet
I think it’s doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there’s a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it’s unrealistic.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Failing Hero Loss People Thinking
I don’t want people poking around in my private stuff. They’ve no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that’s my job, and that’s where it stops.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Giving Jobs People
Maybe the time is right for people to emerge from the easy cynicism and try to get back to a place where we can actually believe in people and trust people to have proper motivations.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Cynicism Emerge Motivator People Proper
Are there people to aspire to? Can people be strong enough to withstand all of this disillusionment?
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Believe Motivation Strong
We’re getting the blues about having to walk away from this whole thing. We enjoyed it a lot and it all felt good. We had a good experience on it.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Bed Moving Together Working
I think most people are decent people. I don’t know if they could stand the pressure he’s under, but most people aspire to be decent people.
BRENDAN GLEESON

People Pressure Thinking
You work for it. You don’t have to massage it, so that it fits into the way it has to be. He’s just too vigorous a writer and the dialogue is too sparking to do anything other than inhabit it and give it as much truth as you can.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Challenges Dialogue DNA Giving Writer
You just try to make it part of your DNA. That’s what the challenge is, really.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Challenge DNA Make Try
We lost faith in authority in the ’50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Focus Hero Needs
But at this point, with the distrust that’s there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.
BRENDAN GLEESON

Element Focus Hero Leadership

You just try to make it part of your DNA. That’s what the challenge is, really.

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