Brendan Gleeson Quotes

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.

At the end of the day, when all the fighting stops and when everybody stops shouting your name, you've still got to be yourself and I feel I am.

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself.

True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start.

You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.