Domhnall Gleeson

“I find looking forward scary because you might die.”

“I'm not built like a leading man.”

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

“I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.”

“I do feel a wave come over me when I hear those two words, 'Star' and 'Wars,' said together. I feel tense, shut up, and stare into the middle distance.”

“Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.”

“Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.”

“I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special.”

“'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.”

“My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'”

“I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.”

“I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.”

“I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.”

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

“The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.”

“No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'”

“I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.”

“I'm certainly a young actor. I'm certainly those two things. Actually, I'm not even young anymore; I'm 29. So, I'm an actor.”

“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.”

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