Gabriel Byrne famous quotes

05-13-2025

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

#Dark #Causes #Break
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
I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
-- Gabriel Byrne

#Thinking
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
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
The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is
-- Gabriel Byrne
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
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
Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.
-- Gabriel Byrne

#Nobody Knows #Wells
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
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
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
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

#Moon #People #Want
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
-- Gabriel Byrne

#People #Way #Artistic
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
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
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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