Colm Meaney Quotes

I Do Like Working On Independent Films Where It Is A Smaller Budget And Less Pressure. The Pace Is Also Quicker Than That Of A Big Budget Film. You Are Shooting At A Fairly Fast Pace. Sitting Around For Three Or Four Days Can Be Quite Draining. So I Guess In Terms Of Film Or Television, I Would Say Filming An Independent Feature.

You Never Know When The Publicity People Will Feel It Is A Good Time To Release The Film.

A Good Comedy’s Very Hard To Make, So Good Comic Writing I Really Enjoy.

As An Actor, I Like To Get A Bit Of Momentum Going With A Character And Kind Of Work A Bit Quicker. I Mean, Not Crazy-fast, But, You Know, Five Or Six Pages A Day Is A Nice Pace.

Colin Morgan Gives A Stunning Performance In Parked; He Plays Merlin In The Bbc Tv Show And He Says The Two Characters Are Like Night And Day. Watch Him. He’s Got Everything It Takes To Be Top Notch.

My Old Manager Of The Irish National Theatre Said 'don't Worry About Being A Star, Just Worry About Being A Working Actor. Just Keep Working.' I Think That's Really Good Advice.

Normally When I'm Sent A Script I'll Read It Through To See How It Hangs As A Story And Then I'll Go Back And Read It Through Again And Look At The Character.

I Usually Read A Script From An Audience Perspective First, And Then Look More Closely At The Character Only.

There Are So Many Burning Issues To Be Dealt With That It's Completely Understandable And Natural That A Character Is Struggling With These Issues Themselves. In That Struggle, You Inform The Audience. The Thing About This Writing Is That It's Very Easy To Learn. Good Writing Always Is.

I Do Probably 80 Or 90 Per Cent Of The Cooking At Home.

Even In Drama, I Like To Try To Find The Humor Because I Think It's Very Human. Even In The Depths Of Dreadful Situations, There's Usually Something Rather Comic, Or Something You Can Laugh About Afterwards, At Least.

I Do Go Back To Ireland, And I'll Probably Be Doing A Film In Ireland In January, And I Guess That Kind Of Keeps Me Classified As 'the Irish Actor,' But The Last Four Or Five Projects That I've Been In Are Either American Or English, So I Don't Feel Terribly Trapped In That. But Sometimes, Yeah, You Would Like To Not Be Called 'the Irish Actor.' You'd Prefer To Just Be Called 'the Actor.'