Liam Cunningham Quotes

Liam Cunningham

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 2, 1961

I live an odd existence. I dip into bizarre, very expensive worlds, and then I'm back with a bang to reality, and I put the bins out.

Liam Cunningham

I was walking home from school when I was about 17 with two friends, and they took a left into an electrical shop. While we were chatting away, they grabbed a couple of forms and I was handed one. My mum found it and made me fill it in. I got called for an interview, and that's how I ended up being an electrician for 11 years.

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I don't consider myself - and I hope I'm never going to be - a 'movie star.' I'd like to be called an actor.

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If I was offered the choice of an award for best actor or best supporting actor, I would go for supporting actor.

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The way I view drama is life with the boring bits taken out.

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What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people.

Liam Cunningham

The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.

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When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The stuff that interests me is the work.

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The superheroes have taken over all the screens in the world. And good luck to them: they're making a lot of money for a lot of people. But the studios are going to become victims of their own success. People are going to get bored with that stuff.

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I think HBO and a couple of the other cable channels in America are making some of the best television that's ever been made.

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Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him, that wants to tell a good story and is able to tell it well.

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It's not beyond me to take my kids to see a good popcorn movie that's a roller coaster ride.

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The only thing an actor can do is, whatever lands on the carpet in the hall, you read it, and if you can't put it down, that's the job to do.

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