Aidan Turner quote: "In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere."

When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to th...
AIDAN TURNER

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.
AIDAN TURNER

I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be pa...
AIDAN TURNER

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.
AIDAN TURNER

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you ma...
AIDAN TURNER

A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot...
AIDAN TURNER

I don't speculate too much about the future. That's the thing about this job - it's so f...
AIDAN TURNER

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working...
AIDAN TURNER

I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started a...
AIDAN TURNER

On a beautiful clear Sunday morning, myself and James Nesbitt jumped out of a plane together at 18,0...
AIDAN TURNER

I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because t...
AIDAN TURNER

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.
AIDAN QUINN

This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.
AIDAN WHITE

At a time when editorial independence needs to be defended, we find the closure of this newspaper sh...
AIDAN WHITE

There is a great deal of concern that there is a fundamentalist religiosity emerging that is demandi...
AIDAN WHITE

The media community is determined to create a meaningful dialogue that will improve understanding be...
AIDAN WHITE

Impunity in the killing of journalists remains the intolerable scandal of our times that can no long...
AIDAN WHITE

Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism. No journalist is safe once they take to the streets.
AIDAN WHITE

We are asking the government to intervene on behalf of all Canadians. CBC should be providing local ...
AIDAN WHITE

The Tunisian authorities continue to show intolerance of independent opinion and free expression. Bu...
AIDAN WHITE

No. That is not what I heard him say.
AIDAN WHITE

to work with the best material that is offered to me at a time when I need to work, and with the bes...
AIDAN QUINN

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to ...
AIDAN QUINN

It's a kind of star-crossed 'Romeo and Juliet'-type love story, where these two were desperately in ...
AIDAN QUINN

Paul would be laughing with extras and saying, 'Yes, and then we could do that,' and, 'Let's try thi...
AIDAN QUINN

Paul sometimes would be a little bit annoying to me, because I'd be behind the camera on a scene I w...
AIDAN QUINN

To get to do something as rich as this story and this part, with my two brothers and my sister -- yo...
AIDAN QUINN

This Is My Father
AIDAN QUINN

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't liv...
AIDAN QUINN

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever...
AIDAN QUINN

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't s...
AIDAN QUINN

We're going to remember the good times.
AIDAN NOLAN

You like to think the best of people. It's sad, just really sad, that people would take out their fr...
AIDAN NOLAN

Without a doubt, it makes you appreciate what you have.
AIDAN NOLAN

I consider myself really lucky to be here talking.
AIDAN NOLAN

People were going left, right and center. No one stood a chance.
AIDAN NOLAN

Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whateve...
AIDAN GILLEN

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, s...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

So-called reality TV, which dominates British channels, is destroying what made it cherishable to me...
AIDAN GILLEN

Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. Th...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a ...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of W...
AIDAN GILLEN

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very styl...
AIDAN GILLEN

I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, t...
AIDAN GILLEN

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Fi...
AIDAN GILLEN

There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.
AIDAN WHITE

tough, solid horse who gets 1 miles really well.
AIDAN O'BRIEN

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal...
AIDAN GILLEN

When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rum...
AIDAN GILLEN

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.
AIDAN QUINN

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

I'm afraid we could be back to square one again. There has been aggravation on the road since Monday...
AIDAN TROY

The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common...
AIDAN KAVANAGH

It's the worse 3,000 feet I've ever done.
AIDAN GOLD

I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like ...
AIDAN GILLEN

I don't know, I can't quite get it."
"Don't try. It's just words."
"Just words?" AIDAN CHAMBERS

You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has ...
AIDAN QUINN

The first time I played a killer, in the 1997 film 'Mojo,' I went to my local video shop and...
AIDAN GILLEN

'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. ...
AIDAN GILLEN

She pulled up when she got to the front. She's really only as good as the horses she's racing agains...
AIDAN O'BRIEN

There are a lot of people watching and waiting. There are a lot of pieces to these networks that hav...
AIDAN O'ROURKE

It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call ...
AIDAN GILLEN

It can flip on a dime from being almost farce-like to being quite serious and then back. That's what...
AIDAN QUINN

I've spent a lot of time with Steve, from Northern Ireland, to Sarajevo, to Utah, but probably most ...
AIDAN QUINN

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, w...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

The plan is to run Scorpion in the Arc, subject to everything being OK with him later in the week,
AIDAN O'BRIEN

Yes, even in your mouse moods you only play with the idea of not being." She cleared her throat agai...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say s...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

There's huge anger, huge fear, people are saying where do we go from here?
AIDAN TROY

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trou...
AIDAN GILLEN

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

He has the most arrogant personality. The way he'll look you up and down, it's unusual in a horse. Y...
AIDAN O'BRIEN

When you've had a good group of two-year-olds like we did last year and they've all done well over t...
AIDAN O'BRIEN

We've been happy with him since his win in the St Leger and he's in good form.
AIDAN O'BRIEN

If everything continues to go as planned, we'll be there.
AIDAN O'BRIEN

We're going to hope he adapts to the dirt.
AIDAN O'BRIEN

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quit...
AIDAN GILLEN

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, ...
AIDAN GILLEN

I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh ...
AIDAN GILLEN

Accepting the facts is always tough, so we search for forgiveness to this universe everyday to break...
AIDAN MCNALLY

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they re...
AIDAN QUINN

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
AIDAN QUINN

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.
AIDAN QUINN

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.
AIDAN QUINN

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.
AIDAN QUINN

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.
AIDAN QUINN

I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films m...
AIDAN QUINN

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which...
AIDAN QUINN

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.
AIDAN QUINN

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because...
AIDAN QUINN

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn'...
AIDAN QUINN

Money is just something to be circulated.
AIDAN QUINN

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.
AIDAN QUINN

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.
AIDAN QUINN

I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on se...
AIDAN QUINN

My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who&#...
AIDAN QUINN

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.
AIDAN QUINN

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control...
AIDAN QUINN

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's...
AIDAN QUINN

Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires...
AIDAN QUINN

It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into a...
AIDAN GILLEN

There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. V...
AIDAN GILLEN

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You...
AIDAN GILLEN

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film an...
AIDAN GILLEN

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

I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your t...
AIDAN GILLEN

Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling am...
AIDAN GILLEN

People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it...
AIDAN GILLEN

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.
AIDAN GILLEN

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

I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.
AIDAN GILLEN

I try to keep my integrity. I don't want to be in 'Hello!' or on 'Celebrity Big Brot...
AIDAN GILLEN

It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.
AIDAN GILLEN

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than yo...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no kno...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

a joy that hurts with sadness
a sadness that is pleasurable
a pleasure full of terror
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Things it helps me to remember
When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still.
Baggy jumpers don�...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

I want to do a lot more roles like I did in 'This Is My Father,'
AIDAN QUINN

It seemed to be able to mine the craziness of everyday living in this busy world. I loved the way it...
AIDAN QUINN

It's a family drama dealing with these people and about their lives. Talking to Jesus, it's really k...
AIDAN QUINN

I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you ...
TED TURNER

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees ...
TED TURNER

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need ...
TED TURNER

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamander...
TED TURNER

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that c...
TED TURNER

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
TED TURNER

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
TED TURNER

I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race prese...
TED TURNER

I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart...
TED TURNER

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
TED TURNER

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were go...
TED TURNER

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
TED TURNER

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with...
TED TURNER

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and go...
TED TURNER

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to se...
TED TURNER

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a...
TED TURNER

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know t...
TED TURNER

The mind is just another muscle.
TED TURNER

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as w...
TED TURNER

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
TED TURNER

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
TED TURNER

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, o...
IKE TURNER

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Missis...
IKE TURNER

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
IKE TURNER

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the ...
IKE TURNER

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is...
IKE TURNER

Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredicta...
IKE TURNER

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my li...
IKE TURNER

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
IKE TURNER

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very g...
IKE TURNER

I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
IKE TURNER

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts ...
IKE TURNER

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always ...
IKE TURNER

I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, ...
IKE TURNER

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't k...
IKE TURNER

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's ...
IKE TURNER

My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's ...
JOSH TURNER

I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been...
JOSH TURNER

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and ...
JOSH TURNER

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.
JOSH TURNER

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.
JOSH TURNER

To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just...
JOSH TURNER

I've never had the patience of a teacher.
JOSH TURNER

Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look arou...
JOSH TURNER

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But n...
JOSH TURNER

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan...
JOSH TURNER

The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it ...
JOSH TURNER

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. ...
JOSH TURNER

Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing every...
JOSH TURNER

What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by ...
JOSH TURNER

I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I...
JOSH TURNER

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by...
JOSH TURNER

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wron...
JOSH TURNER

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota F...
JOSH TURNER

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no...
JOSH TURNER

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules...
JOSH TURNER

I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark tim...
JOSH TURNER

You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a...
JOSH TURNER

I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I...
JOSH TURNER

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
JOSH TURNER

'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!
SOPHIE TURNER

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you'r...
TED TURNER

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing...
GLENN TURNER

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
LANA TURNER

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
LANA TURNER

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
LANA TURNER

We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. Th...
LANA TURNER

That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdress...
LANA TURNER

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
LANA TURNER

I've always loved a challenge.
LANA TURNER

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
LANA TURNER

Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and ...
LANA TURNER

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
LANA TURNER

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

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In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

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