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" Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way. "

Ciaran Hinds

Lost

Own

Three

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Saw

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" I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that. "

" That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them. "

" Grief is exhausting. "

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Grief

Exhausting

" I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage. "

" I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years. "

" Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat. "

" My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving. "

" I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions. "

" You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right. "

" I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing. "

" I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story. "

" I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses. "

" I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me. "

" I don't use the word 'artists' lightly. "

" I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years. "

Ciaran Hinds

Back

Always

" I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present? "

" I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to! "

Ciaran Hinds

Profile

Got

" When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it. "

" It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made. "

" I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up. "

" Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working. "

" In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is. "

" I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project. "