Gleeson: "I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in."

Gleeson: "The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward."

Gleeson: "Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent."

Gleeson: "I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes."

Gleeson: "I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel."

Gleeson: "I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them."

Gleeson: "Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor."

Gleeson: "Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile."

Gleeson: "Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones."

Gleeson: "When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it."

Gleeson: "Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base."

Gleeson: "I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult."