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" 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. "

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" 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? "

" 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.' "

" Grief is exhausting. "

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

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

" For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work. "

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

" 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. "

" No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Casting is very, very important. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My soul is still Irish. "

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

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