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I'm a big old romantic.
Magic is at the core of myths.
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
I have hope. I have no expectations.
I am more comfortable doing a drama.
I love my kids. I'm crazy about them.
I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
I never once regretted doing "True Detective".
Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.
I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.
I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.
I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.
It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.
I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.
[Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.
Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.
If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.
I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.
I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.
I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.
When I read the script it was extraordinary and to work with Yorgos [Lanthimos] again was amazing.
I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.
I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.
I got to work with Jared Leto. Jared's cute. Oh, I'll tell you. Jared will make you doubt about your sexuality.
It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.
Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.
I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.
I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.
I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
You dream to eat whatever you can and get away with it and then when you're told you have to eat, it loses its fun straight away.
What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.
I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.
I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.
If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months, at the start of the film, I was never able to do it.
I didn't work with any of the beasts [ "Fantastic Beasts"], I didn't have much green screen, but I loved working on it. I'm excited to see it myself.
I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.
You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.