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Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.

~Aidan Gillen

Topics: Bad Born Borne Circumstances Course Everything Experience Harsh How Human Human Experience Humiliation Ice Made Matter Out People Person Poverty Rejection Whatever

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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

Topics: 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 do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

~Aidan Gillen

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There's a lot of 'Game of Thrones' stuff used in a lot of pastiches. I don't know if I've seen a Lego 'Game of Thrones' yet, but there must be one. And there's an animated thing that's been going on for quite some time, and Littlefinger is a newsreader in it, and it's great.

~Aidan Gillen

Topics: Animated Been Game Game Of Thrones Going Great Know Lego Lot Must Quite Quite Some Time Seen Some Stuff Thing Time Used

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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

Topics: 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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When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.

~Aidan Gillen

Topics: Actor Around Bad Birthday Boy Falcon Fish Mickey Penn Really Same Same Time Saw Sean Teenager Time Were

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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

Topics: 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 hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

~Aidan Gillen

Topics: Good Hate Know People Tell You

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I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

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Topics: Am Fact Going Good Heat Myself Never Over Up Want I Am

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Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

~Aidan Gillen

Topics: Acting Couple Every Give Going Think Up Weeks Years I Think

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Actor

Born: April 24th, 1968

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