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" I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years. "
Ciaran Hinds
Project
People
Years
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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. "
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" No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.' "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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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You
" When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life. "
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Made
" 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. "
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" I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years. "
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Back
Always
Go
" In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is. "
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Weird
Life
" I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to! "
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Got
Go
" 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. "
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Hollywood
Work
" I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years. "
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Always
Theatre
Never
" 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. "
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Story
Care
Hold
" I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. "
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TV
Being
Saw
" Grief is exhausting. "
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Grief
Exhausting
" I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses. "
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Buses
Fairly
Know
" 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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Cork
Fair
Know
" If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully. "
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Carefully
You
Territory
" 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. "
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Work
Right
People
" Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies. "
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Hollywood
Sometimes
Movies
" 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. "
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You
People
Love
" 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. "
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Easy
Funny
Humanity
" I don't use the word 'artists' lightly. "
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Word
Use
Lightly
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Something
Honest
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Myself
" 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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Music
Always
Feet
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Human
Believe
Contradictions
" 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. "
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Stupid
Person
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Seen
Lot
Dirty