112 Quotes by Domhnall Gleeson

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it.

Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.