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I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.
~ Aidan Gillen
Characters
Cunning
Devious
Down
Enigmatic
Ever
Get
Good
Hard
Hope
Job
Know
Me
Minds
Obviously
Okay
People
Pin
Places
Play
Played
Tricky
Who
You
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I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.
~ Aidan Gillen
Edinburgh
Experienced
Festival
Film
Film Festival
Glasgow
Like
Liked
Too
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I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your teens, you just want to be treated the same as everybody else. You just want people to see you as an actor and not as a kid.
~ Aidan Gillen
Actor
Else
Even
Everybody
Everybody Else
Just
Kid
Myself
Out
People
Professionally
Quite
Same
See
Started
Teens
Treated
Want
Working
You
Young
Your
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I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.
~ Aidan Gillen
Adult
Anyone
Around
Become
Before
Coming
Dramas
Dramatically
Explore
Intense
Life
Like
Most
Much
Nice
Period
Really
Talent
Those
Through
Years
You
Young
Young Talent
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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 be.
~ Aidan Gillen
About
Actor
Any
Because
Characters
Could
Exploring
Had
Image
Interested
Never
Only
Part
Playing
Public
Public Image
Something
Suppose
Trouble
Unpleasant
Which
Who
Why
Worried
Would
Would-Be
You
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I try to keep my integrity. I don't want to be in 'Hello!' or on 'Celebrity Big Brother.'
~ Aidan Gillen
Big
Big Brother
Brother
Celebrity
Hello
Integrity
Keep
Try
Want
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I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.
~ Aidan Gillen
Develop
Like
Musical
Myself
Quite
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I'm always attracted to bold, risk-taking scripts.
~ Aidan Gillen
Always
Attracted
Bold
Risk-Taking
Scripts
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I've enjoyed working on the TV series that I've worked on, in particular something like 'The Wire,' where there was so much time to tell the story and develop a character. I learned from that that it's best not to lay all your cards on the table straight away.
~ Aidan Gillen
Away
Best
Cards
Character
Develop
Enjoyed
Lay
Learned
Like
Much
Particular
Series
So Much Time
Something
Story
Straight
Table
Tell
Time
TV
TV Series
Where
Wire
Worked
Working
Your
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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, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.
~ Aidan Gillen
Away
Back
Been
Between
By The Time
Career
Come
Film
Film And TV
Forgotten
Good
Having
Head
Idea
Keep
Least
Like
Made
Moving
Off
Part
People
Play
Point
Same
Strategy
Theatre
Time
Together
Trying
TV
Which
Year
You
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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, that's a good career strategy.
~ Aidan Gillen
Away
Back
Been
Between
By The Time
Career
Come
Film
Film And TV
Forgotten
Good
Having
Idea
Like
Made
Moving
Off
Part
People
Play
Point
Same
Strategy
Theatre
Time
Trying
TV
Which
Year
You
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I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.
~ Aidan Gillen
Act
Acting
Because
Best
Best Time
Doing
Down
Freedom
Had
Happiest
Just
Just Because
Lead
Lead Roles
Like
Low
More
Roles
Them
Things
Time
Trying
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In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
~ Aidan Gillen
Better
Drama
Either
Everything
Gets
Hope
OK
Pretend
Really
Show
World
You
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It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into a room full of 10 people and give it all away. In the pilot season in Los Angeles I've done that a couple of times.
~ Aidan Gillen
Angeles
Away
Couple
Done
Ease
Easy
Feel
Find
Full
Get
Give
Go
Hour
Los
Los Angeles
Me
Might
People
Pilot
Room
Season
Somebody
Take
Times
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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
Anything
Appealing
Characters
Flawed
Good
Just
Like
Look
Make
Me
Most
People
Seems
Some
Them
Then
Try
Versa
Vice
Vice Versa
Way
You
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It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.
~ Aidan Gillen
Always
Audience
Good
Good Idea
Idea
Make
Make Up
Minds
Own
Up
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It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.
~ Aidan Gillen
Always
Around
Because
Conflict
Fatal
Finding
Flaw
Going
Hidden
Interesting
More
Play
Positive
Sides
Someone
Take
Them
Thing
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It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call myself James sometimes. I actually use my mother's name as a professional name. But if someone calls me Mr. Murphy or Mr. Gillen, I don't like that. I don't like being called 'mister,' and I don't like being called 'sir.'
~ Aidan Gillen
Actually
Being
Call
Calls
Different
Few
James
Like
Me
Mother
Mr
Murphy
Myself
Name
Names
Nice
Professional
Sir
Someone
Sometimes
Use
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My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.
~ Aidan Gillen
Actually
Builds
Get
Good
Got
I Think
Interesting
Make
Musical
My Own
Number
Own
Quite
Rap
Rapping
Skills
Talk
Them
Thing
Think
Where
You
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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.
~ Aidan Gillen
Baltimore
Bleak
Complex
I See
Letter
Love
People
People Say
Say
See
Strange
Very
Way
Wire
Written
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