I've been very lucky.

I don't torture myself.

I hate the domestic life.

I hate wasting people's time.

I like to learn about things.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

I've got a serious-looking head.

I broke things to get attention.

I like to cook things very slowly.

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

Actors should never give interviews.

It must be hard interviewing actors.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

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