Gabriel Byrne Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.”

“The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.”

“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.”

“Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.”

“I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.”

“I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.”

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

“O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.”