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

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" When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know, 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. "

" 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. "

" Grief is exhausting. "

" My soul is still Irish. "

" 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. "

" You get to an age when you lose people close to you. "

" When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.' "

" Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies. "

" I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.' "

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

" 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 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. "

" To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D. "

" Casting is very, very important. "

" I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. "

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

" If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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