Aidan Quinn Quotes

• You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I’m not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

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• Really, most of us just focus on what’s in front of us. We’re too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

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• Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it.

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• I’m not particularly a career-oriented guy. I’m lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I’d like to have the choice of the better roles.

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• I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods. That’s why I don’t live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

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• I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods.

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• I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you’re from the minimalist school, it doesn’t mean you can’t go big.

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• I think there’s a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands – which is where my family is from – in Ireland.

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

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• I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I’ve gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.

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• I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn’t something that I find comfortable.

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• I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

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• I can’t control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can’t control.

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

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Aidan Quinn (14)

Birth:	8th March, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Aidan Quinn is an American actor. He made his film debut in 1984 in Reckless. His films include Desperately Seeking Susan, The Mission, Stakeout, Benny and Joon, Legends of the Fall, Frankenstein, and Michael Collins. Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly, in Ireland.

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