Gabriel Byrne Quotes

• Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Mother, Children, Fighting

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• Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Happy Birthday, Mean, People

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• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Fun, Thinking, Devil

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• It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

  Gabriel Byrne

  Giving, Illusion, Born

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• I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".

  Gabriel Byrne

  Dark, Thinking, Eggs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Men, People, Way

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• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Character, People, Thumbs

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• From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Love Yourself, Moon, People

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• When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Country, America, Peculiar

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• I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

  Gabriel Byrne

  New York, One Day, Kevin

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• This notion that Americans have. . . that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead - that's very pervasive in the culture, it goes very deep into how they see themselves here.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Order, Culture, Very Deep

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• I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best Ive ever done it.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Kids, Thinking, Play

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• Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Nobody Knows, Wells, Coen Brothers

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Football, Dying, Finals

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• It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Reality, Two, Spiders

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• The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is

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• And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Reality, Confusing, Acting

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• I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Attention, Pay, Bears

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• I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Country, Baby, Fighting

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• I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Dark, Break Out, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Photography, Thinking, Want

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• Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Hurt, Men, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Thinking, Great Times

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• Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Husband, Divorce, Rights

  "A Minute With: Gabriel Byrne's TV Viking chieftain". Interview with Jill Jacobs, www.reuters.com. February 27, 2013.

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• What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Song, Thinking, Think Big

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