Gabriel Byrne Net Worth

Gabriel Byrne's Quotes

• I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".
• The truth is that actors don't really have any control over the end product. To think that you have control is a delusion and it's also incredibly frustrating to be investing that much hope into something that essentially boils down to marketing. So you try to do movies that you feel connected with and you work with directors and actors you admire.
• I've always felt that acting is about exposure. You expose yourself in the choices you make. It's when you present yourself as truthfully as you can, in a given situation, that you are being that character. Even though you're being yourself.
• Sometimes, the vanity of actors is that we imagine we're so completely different on screen from who we are in real life. When really, all actors play themselves.
• American movies to me - and, I mean, I've said this before a million times - are becoming more and more homogeneous because the marketing objective - and marketing now plays such a major role in movies that it almost obliterates everything else - the marketing objective is the lowest common denominator. "You can't put that in; let's put the car chase, let's put the sex scene, let's put the fight in, let's get them back together, they end up happily, they walk off into the sun..." So that there's a formulaic predictability to American movies. That, allied with the cynicism of the way movies are put together - product placement and spin-offs and toys and all kinds of crap that, you know, have nothing to do with the telling of stories - they've turned American movies into McMovies. So that when the movie-goer gets his movie, it's like a hamburger: he doesn't want a piece of aubergine in there; he wants his onion, his tomato, his hamburger and his bun. And he doesn't want the bun hard, he wants it soft. And he wants it in two minutes.

Interesting Facts about Gabriel Byrne

1. Has a son, Jack Daniel, born 1989; and a daughter, Romy Marion, born 1992.
2. Started acting at the age of 29 and he went to America for the first time when he was 37.
3. Before becoming an actor, he was an archaelogist, a schoolteacher, a short-order cook, and a bullfighter.
4. In a November 1999 interview with the New York Post, he claimed to have been molested by his Latin teacher while at an English seminary preparing for priesthood.
5. He went from a priest in Stigmata (1999) to Satan in End of Days (1999).
6. Educated by the Christian Brothers in Dublin.
7. Autobiography titled "Pictures in My Head"
8. Was nominated for Broadway's 2000 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten."
9. Although he separated from Ellen Barkin in 1993, he did not file for divorce until May 1999.
10. Has appeared in 3 roles romantically opposite Laura Linney, "A Simple Twist of Fate," "P.S." and "Jindabyne.".
11. Older brother of Donal, Thomas, Breda, Margaret and Marian (deceased).
12. Son of Dan Byrne and Eileen Gannon.
13. He has Irish citizenship and resident alien status in the United States.
14. He's a patron of The West of Ireland Cardiology Foundation, Croi, since 1997.
15. He was a football played with the Stella Maris Football Club in Drumcondra, Dublin.
16. Speaks English and Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic).
17. Learned to speak Gaelic in college and still speaks it fluently.
18. Cites Federico Fellini's Amarcord (1973) as one of his all-time favorite movies.
19. In Live from Lincoln Center: Camelot (2008) Gabriel Byrne plays King Arthur. In Excalibur (1981) he plays Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon.
20. Didn't start acting until he was twenty-nine years old.