Barry Keoghan Quotes

Barry Keoghan

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 17, 1992

I started getting interested in the craft and watching old movies, and they're the ones that reach out to me the most - films like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'On the Waterfront.' So I start watching all of these, and I was getting educated, and I started being interested in this acting thing, if that's what they call it.

Barry Keoghan

I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.

Barry Keoghan

I always believed that I could be one of the greatest actors of my generation.

Barry Keoghan

I want stories where you either hate it or love it. I want to do movies like that, where it's not show and tell, where it's not, 'This is it, and now you reveal the ending, and that's that.'

Barry Keoghan

I was a mess-up in school, a big mess-up. I was into history and English, because there were always stories, like 'Dracula' and World War II. I've never read a book, though. Never.

Barry Keoghan

I've been lucky to be educated by watching the old and the great movies, working with good filmmakers, and being educated on sets.

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I want stories that tackle things.

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Getting involved with 'Black 47' was like getting involved with 'Dunkirk' for me. I learned a lot. But 'Black 47' was my own history from my own country.

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I'm trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers.

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I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

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I'm good to women. I treat women with a lot of respect.

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This industry can take you in and spit you out. It's overwhelming. But I keep my feet on the ground, my Air Max on the gravel.

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With this acting and this lifestyle, your privacy does get taken a little.

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I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

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I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.

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I've stayed friends with the boys I've known since I was 10.

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I'm always wanting to do the impossible.

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My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.

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People can get lost in the movie star world. They can't check in with reality, whereas I live at home with me girl, surrounded by real people.

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Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.

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