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" Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time. "

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" I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976. "

" You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game. "

" Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home. "

" I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.' "

" There's always been product placement in Bond movies. "

" I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist. "

" When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself. "

Believe In Yourself

" I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.' "

" Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically. "

" I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life. "

" You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father. "

" It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them. "

" I have no desire to look at myself. "

" There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness. "

" I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble. "

" James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like. "

" Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it. "

" To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring. "

" The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring. "

" I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona. "

" Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling. "

" Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life. "

" For me, acting is doing. "

" Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out. "

" I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.' "

" Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films. "

" When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up. "

" My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad. "

" I love the finer things. "

" I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches. "