Quotes by Aidan Gillen

About Aidan Gillen:

Aidan Gillen is an Irish actor. He is best known for portraying CIA agent Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises, Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk, John Boy in the RTÉ Television series Love/Hate, and Tommy Carcetti in the HBO series The Wire.
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I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

Aidan Gillen

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

Aidan Gillen

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

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I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, th...

Aidan Gillen

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

Aidan Gillen

There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the Europea...

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It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

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For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.

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I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character any time soon, not because I wouldn't love to. I went up to Wales once and read for a film with Rhys Ifans, and haven't been asked back since. We di...

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People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.

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I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

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I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

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Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.

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Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

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I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.

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I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

Aidan Gillen

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

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To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after...

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'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and tha...

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I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would b...

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Author Bio

  • NameAidan Gillen
  • DescriptionIrish actor
  • BornApril 24, 1968
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionActor