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" Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive. "

Ciaran Hinds

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Energy

Yourself

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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Ciaran Hinds

Being

Saw

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" 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. "

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

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

" I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years. "

" We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. "

" 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. "

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" My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother. "

" 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. "

" 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. "