Barry Keoghan Quotes:
After everything I’ve been through – the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, ‘I’m gonna just not try.’ I used it all as ammunition.
Barry Keoghan
All I would say is it doesn’t matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he’s one of the top ones, a top lad.
Barry Keoghan
All my foster homes were very good to me. But it’s still not a very nice experience. It’s only when you’re older, you realise: we were on our own in there. As kids, you don’t know what’s happening. You’re here. Then you’re in the next house. But the families were all very good to us.
Barry Keoghan
Anyone dying is not easy, but certainly not a mother. Me and my brother, we stuck together. The foster families were good to me, and then my nanny took me in.
Barry Keoghan
Boxing is something I’m very into.
Barry Keoghan
Boxing isn’t a career. Acting is it for me. But they’re both very therapeutic.
Barry Keoghan
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Dublin’s a great place. It really is. It’s a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I’ve realized that growing up more. I’m loving my country more as I’m getting older.
Barry Keoghan
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Every actor wants to show a good and deep range, so you look at all the elements here, and you make a conscious choice of where you want to go as a performer.
Barry Keoghan
Everyone wants to be Batman; I want to be Robin. I’ll make Robin cool. Make him legit.
Barry Keoghan
Foster care was a big part of my life.
Barry Keoghan
Getting involved with ‘Black 47’ was like getting involved with ‘Dunkirk’ for me. I learned a lot. But ‘Black 47’ was my own history from my own country.
Barry Keoghan
I can play younger. It’s better to be playing younger because you’ve got that experience, and it’s hard to play older when you’re younger.
Barry Keoghan
I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, ‘Ah, why?’ Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, ‘This feels good!’
Barry Keoghan
I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.
Barry Keoghan
I grew up in Summerhill in Dublin’s inner city, and I came across an open audition, and they were looking for inner city kids who had not acted. I signed up.
Barry Keoghan
I have confidence. I don’t know where I got it from.
Barry Keoghan
I hope I inspire younger ones. Whatever you’re into – sports, whatever – just go and do something.
Barry Keoghan
I just think the more you’re in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I’m doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.
Barry Keoghan
I kick myself that I don’t speak Irish. Ah, man, I’d love to. I am going to learn.
Barry Keoghan
I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.
Barry Keoghan
I recently was in the same room as Leonardo DiCaprio, and one of my favorite movies is ‘Basketball Diaries.’ That movie hits home for me in so many ways, and in that moment, I was like, ‘I have to thank this dude.’ So I did.
Barry Keoghan
I started getting interested in the craft and watching old movies, and they’re the ones that reach out to me the most – films like ‘Cool Hand Luke’ and ‘On the Waterfront.’ So I start watching all of these, and I was getting educated, and I started being interested in this acting thing, if that’s what they call it.
Barry Keoghan
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