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" Acting is way of making yourself exist. "
Exist
Yourself
Way
" Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie. "
Irish
Angel
Film
" At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I? "
You
Camera
Be Yourself
" At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country. "
Back
Moment
People
" I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me. "
I Am
Death
Scared
" I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. "
Business
People
Fashion
" I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along. "
Want
Move
Just
" I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character. "
Own
Digital
Character
" I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are. "
She
Political
Wife
" If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count. "
You
Lead
Got
" I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one. "
Never
Think
Go
" I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting. "
Still
Why
Know
" I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite. "
Technology
Ambition
Son
" I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are. "
Too Much
Stand
Never
" I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without. "
Being
See
People
" I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. "
Down
Think
I Think
" I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago. "
Her
Over
Politics
" I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level. "
Bad
Play
Never
" My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do. "
Exactly
Time
Kids
" People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. "
Me
Smile
Ask
" People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing. "
Game
Up
Point
" That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere. "
Me
Beginning
Acting
" The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. "
Writing
Book
Boy
" The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. "
Actor
Director
Worst
" You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity. "
Good
Care
Believe
" You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares. "
You
Who
Nightmares
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