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Colm Meaney Quotes

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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  (Colm Meaney Quotes) Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you’re doing that the rest of your life.  (Colm Meaney Quotes) Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it’s fun. When the show was on, I couldn’t have handled it. I didn’t want that direct connection.  (Colm Meaney Quotes) The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you’re not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.  (Colm Meaney Quotes) I love doing comedy. You don’t get many good comedy scripts. They’re rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it’s very human.  (Colm Meaney Quotes) 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.  (Colm Meaney Quotes) Well, I’ve always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.  (Colm Meaney Quotes) I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors  (Colm Meaney Quotes) I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there’s some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that  (Colm Meaney Quotes) Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you’re doing that the rest of your life  (Colm Meaney Quotes) 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  (Colm Meaney Quotes) 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  (Colm Meaney Quotes) I love doing comedy. You don’t get many good comedy scripts. They’re rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it’s very human  (Colm Meaney Quotes) I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home  (Colm Meaney Quotes) A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy  (Colm Meaney Quotes) Well, I’ve always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys  (Colm Meaney Quotes) There’s no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you’re not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing’s good. You’re not compromising for it, you know  (Colm Meaney Quotes) Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it’s fun. When the show was on, I couldn’t have handled it. I didn’t want that direct connection  (Colm Meaney Quotes) If you’re playing the a historical character that’s in the public consciousness, then obviously you’ve got to make an effort to look like that person and there’s a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to  (Colm Meaney Quotes) I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they’re talking about me for  (Colm Meaney Quotes) I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less  (Colm Meaney Quotes) 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  (Colm Meaney Quotes) I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only  (Colm Meaney Quotes) You never know when the publicity people will feel it is a good time to release the film  (Colm Meaney Quotes)